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1 online resource (225 pages) |
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Mothers Who Kill Their Children -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Previous Attempts to Understand Why Mothers Kill Their Children -- Chapter 2: Denial of Pregnancy -- Chapter 3: Purposeful Killing -- Chapter 4: Maternal Neglect -- Chapter 5: Abuse-Related Deaths -- Chapter 6: Assistance or Coercion from a Partner -- Chapter 7: Responding to Mothers Who Kill -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors |
| Summary |
A special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as those of Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons by driving her car into a lake, and Melissa Drexler, who disposed of her newborn baby in a restroom at her prom, become media sensations. Unfortunately, in addition to these high-profile cases, hundreds of mothers kill their children in the United States each year. The question most often asked is, why? What would drive a mother to kill her own child? Those who work with such cases, whether in clinical psychology, social services, law enforcement or ac |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Filicide.
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Infanticide.
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Women murderers.
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Mothers -- Psychology
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Mothers -- Social conditions
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Filicide
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Infanticide
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Mothers -- Psychology
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Mothers -- Social conditions
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Women murderers
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Franz, Jim
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Proano, Tara
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| ISBN |
9780814759660 |
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0814759661 |
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