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Parents Who Kill

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That's the title of an article in the current issue of Psyciatric Times by Drs. Susan Hatters-Friedman, MD and Phillip J. Resnick, MD.  LINKChild murder by parents is an upsetting topic for both the public and clinicians. It is even more distressing when a mother kills her child than when a father does because we expect mothers to love and protect their children at all costs.The term filicide refers to the homicide of a child by a biological parent. Stepfathers kill their stepchildren at much higher rates than do bio­logical fathers. Infanticide commonly denotes the murder of an infant during the first 12 months of life but is a less precise term. Infanticide laws exist that reduce the penalty for a mother who kills her child in the first year of life in more than 2 dozen countries (not including the United States)...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).