Thank you much for making this idea its own thread-I read an article similar to the one you linked and it prompted me to Google the subject, which turned out some interesting info.
I always believed that Caylee would have been bound for a prom-night trash can scenario, had KC been in H.S...If you remember, there were several stories shortly before the time that Caylee would have been born, where teenage girls around the country were "dumping" their babies, no one even knowing they were pregnant to begin with.
Abortion is not a cheap option for someone that age. I figured maybe KC could not afford it, because I do not believe she could be pro-life...clearly. So the pregnancy rapidly flew by the first trimester restriction that Florida has.
Denial and concealing of pregnancy cannot be definitively linked to filicide, IIRC, but there are more and more social studies that are correlating the two for comparison.
Once Caylee was there, KC faced (apparently) three options-
-Adoption. Not even considered, IMO, because it takes a certain kind of selflessness to do that-Writing from experience, I kept my daughter, who I had at 19, and considered myself able, and, if I am 1000% honest, would have had too much pride to even consider "letting someone else raise my baby." KC/CA figured (begrudgingly on KC's part), while it would be hard, they could do it, they could raise Caylee.
-Leave Caylee with Cindy. :rolling: Do we seriously think, for one hot second, that CA would not make sure KC was CONSTANTLY reminded of her failure, her inability? Nope-I think KC liked option 3 better because she would still have had to deal with Caylee if CA kept her.....
-Option 3 is the option KC took, and it's disgusting that it is even an option.
This also explains KC's mental status between the time of Caylee's birth and her murder, and the "change" that some who have known her described. She felt she was in the twilight zone, she was not supposed to have Caylee there, she writhed in her own skin about not being able to escape this situation she wanted so badly to never have. Sometimes it was okay that Caylee was there, she was even cute and fun on occasion-But most days it was distorted, not right for KC, she started to get away geographically, but CA would keep calling KC home. One cannot say aloud that they don't want their child anymore, it's shameful and she would carry guilt for ever saying that. Nope, guilt sucks, don't want that.
Here is another link:
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/162/9/1578
"Neonaticide
The three administrative record sample studies of neonaticide in the United States revealed that maternal perpetrators were likely to be unmarried, to have a mean and modal age in the late teenage years, to have low socioeconomic status, and to reside with parents or other relatives. The perpetrators had high rates of denied or concealed pregnancy and a relative lack of prenatal care. In the single U.S. study of a psychiatric population of women who committed neonaticide (49), the mothers had an older mean age (24 years) and middle to low socioeconomic status. The subjects in this study exhibited denial of pregnancy and frequently reported depersonalization, dissociative hallucinations, and intermittent amnesia. "
As we know, KC could not commit neonaticide because her family caught on that she was pregnant. I think it took her three years because she, for lack of a better phrase, wanted to give it a shot with keeping Caylee.