Revisiting the Tale of Banita Jacks: How Unsupported Mothers Fall Through The Cracks

I’ve been getting an uptick in traffic from my original post on Banita Jacks from July. To bring you up to speed, Ms. Jacks is on trial for murdering her four children. Her story could be any woman’s story. An average woman living life, with a career who decides to be a mother, loses her [...]

October 18th, 2009 | Category: Acts of Faith Blog, Banita Jacks, It Is Time To Get Real, Losing It, Raising Him Alone, You Are Not Superwoman | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Tale of Banita Jacks: Another Unsupported Black Mother Cracks & Commits Filicide

Reading about Banita Jacks I can’t help but think of Andrea Yates, but the class and race implications are wholly different. Still, I’ve always had a certain amount of sympathy for Yates, who was clearly mentally ill and should not have been left alone to care for her children. Further I was always suspicious of [...]

July 29th, 2009 | Category: Acts of Faith Blog, Banita Jacks, Black Girls and Women in Peril | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)