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Filicide
Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. The term can also be applied to the parent who has committed such an act. The word filicide derives from the Latin word filius meaning "son".

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Classifications and Descriptions of Parents Who Commit Filicide
http://www.publications.villanova.edu/Concept/2005/Filicide.pdf

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Filicide happens all over the world but the reasons differ from society to society
http://nitawriter.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/felicide-happens-all-over-the-world-but-the-reasons-differ-from-society-to-society/
Parents killing their children is not unusual in any society…only the motives differ. While mental instability and/or lack of control is the underlying factor of most homicides, filicide or not, the trigger/motive to commit the violent act depend on circumstances and the social milieu.
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Child murder by mothers: patterns and prevention
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2174580&blobtype=pdf
The tragedy of maternal filicide, or child murder by mothers, has occurred throughout history and throughout the world. This review of the research literature sought to identify common predictors in the general population as well as in correctional and psychiatric samples.
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Researchers say 'filicide' not rare
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/topstory/950318.html
The crimes may be unthinkable, but in truth they are not so rare.
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Filicide-Suicide: Common Factors in Parents Who Kill Their Children and Themselves
http://www.jaapl.org/cgi/reprint/33/4/496?ijkey=df67d31eea47aaca6a5e144452c100928c056986
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to identify commonly occurring factors in filicide-suicide offenders, to describe this phenomenon better, and ultimately to enhance prevention of child murder.
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Child Murder by Mothers: A Critical Analysis of the Current State of Knowledge and a Research Agenda
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/162/9/1578
Maternal filicide, or child murder by mothers, occurs more frequently in the United States than in other developed nations. However, little is known about factors that confer risk to children. The authors review the literature to identify predictors of maternal filicide and identify gaps in knowledge about maternal filicide.
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Women at Risk: Neonaticide, Infanticide and Filicide
http://www.gpdsc.org/omha-article_neonaticide_infanticide.htm
Although there are many alternatives, women who find themselves in this situation for any number of reasons continue to engage in filicide. Exploring what brings a woman to this point can give us a better understanding of how to treat them both psychologically and legally.
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Annals of Filicide
http://www.newsweek.com/id/91534
An Alabama man is accused of killing his four young children. What causes parents to murder their young?
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Murdered Children: Filicide, Infanticide and Neonaticide
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/332484/murdered_children_filicide_infanticide.html
Filicide is defined as the killing of one's own child. Filicide can include more specific modern terms like infanticide, the killing of an infant by its parents, and neonaticide, the killing of a newborn within its first 24 hours of life.
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Multiple factors play a role in filicide-suicide cases
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20071031/ai_n21073275

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Exploratory Analysis of the Contexts and Circumstances of Filicide-Suicide in Chicago, 1965–1994
http://www.toddkshackelford.com/downloads/Shackelford-Weekes-Shackelford-Beasley-AB-2005.pdf
Five hypotheses are tested for this study, using a database that includes incident-level information on over 22,000 homicides committed in Chicago during the years 1965–1994.
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Filicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filicide
Filicide on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Filicide by fire
http://firechief.com/mag/firefighting_filicide_fire/
A seemingly accidental fire claims the lives of innocent children. But in some cases there may be a darker side to the tragedy. Could these parents have deliberately killed their children?
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Filicide Cases in Turkey, 1995–2000
http://www.cmj.hr/2003/44/5/14515419.pdf
The study involved 85 cases of filicide evaluated by the 4th Specialized Board of the Institute of ForensicMedicine in Istanbul in the 1995-2000 period. We assessed the characteristics of parents who committed filicide (age, sex, education level, employment status, and criminal liability) and children victims (age, sex, own or stepchild), as well as the causes of death.
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