Syyt, miksi äiti tai isä murhaa lapsensa (englanniksi)

Dr. Sara West, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Case Western University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, says there are a number of reasons why parents kill their children. But spousal revenge is not very often one of them.



West points to the landmark 1969 research by Dr. Phillip Resnick on "filicide," the technical term for the murder of one's own child. Resnick found that there were five main motives in such killings, and the most common one was "altruistic."



In "altruistic" filicide, a parent kills her child because she doesn't want to leave the child in what she perceives is a "cruel" world. This type of murder is often accompanied with a suicide attempt. In a second type of altruistic filicide, a child is killed to end his or her real or imagined suffering.



Another all-too-common category is "fatal maltreatment," which is a death as the result of a beating, even though homicide is not always the goal.



(A subcategory of fatal maltreatment is "Munchausen syndrome by proxy," a very rare syndrome in which parents hurt their children in an attempt to get more attention for themselves.)



Another of Resnick's motives involves "unwanted child" filicide.



His final filicide motivation is "spouse revenge," in which parents kill their children to make their spouse suffer.







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