Politically incorrect questions needed

I'm sitting here reading this pathetic story about the San Francisco woman who last week threw her three small children into the ocean. Despite her own words and eyewitnesses who watched in horror, she nonetheless entered a not guilty plea. I will never understand.

But that's not my question. Actually I have two questions.

This woman - Lashuan Harris, 23, is mentally ill. I can accept that. How could social service workers not see her instability and remove those children from the home? Or, let me ask the politically incorrect question. Will there ever be a debate on our society over the ability of the mentally ill to have children? I know the moral implications. But should we as a society be questioning why this woman was allowed to bear children given her obvious mental state?

And just as a footnote, no mention of a father has yet been made. Let's throw that discussion in the pool of public debate while we're at it.

This mentally ill woman began having children at age 17. She's been hospitalized for mental disorders repeatedly. Her mother was once granted custody of the young children. She made a second attempt for custody but was denied. So just who's crazy here - the woman or the system that allowed her to have these children and to neglect them as she did?

But here's my most important question. This woman said she heard "voices" that told her to throw her children to the sharks. This is just the latest case of someone hearing "voices" that tell them to do harm.

Have you ever wondered why these "voices" didn't tell her to give her children up for adoption and jump in the damn ocean herself? Funny how these "voices" always seem to direct harm toward others. I would assume that the "voices" could just have easily told her to take her own life instead of the lives of three small children.

Well guess what? I'm hearing "voices" too and they are telling me that society is far too interested in protecting the "family unit" and far less interested in doing what is right for the children. If you look real hard you'll probably find a lazy social worker who found it much easier to judge this woman sane instead of doing his or her job.

Some people simply should not bear children. I recognize it's not society's place to make that judgment. But tell that to three small children who took