Viewpoint: Women, depression and empathy: Explaining the gender gap in views about child-murderer Lindsay Clancy Aporia | September 17, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/17/viewpoint-women-depression-and-empathy-explaining-the-gender-gap-in-views-about-child-murderer-lindsay-clancy/ Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy’s trial — which ended in a deadlocked jury over the deaths of her three children while she was reportedly in the grip of severe postpartum depression — drew an outpouring of sympathy from women, sociologist Rosemary Hopcroft writes in Aporia Magazine. Hundreds gathered outside the courthouse in support, and social media filled with women sharing their own struggles with the overwhelming demands of new motherhood.