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Mothers who Murder: A Comparative Study of Filicide and Neonaticide

Pages 201-213 | Published online: 22 Nov 2013
 

ABSTRACT

Infanticide is not an every-day word, and the terms filicide and neonaticide are rarely, if ever, heard. The killing of a child (infanticide), the killing of one's own child (filicide), and filicide within 24 hours of birth (neonaticide) are subjects that are presently in the spotlight, both in Canada and the United States. We have just witnessed two different cases of filicide.

RÉSUMÉ

Le mot infanticide ne fait pas partie du vocabulaire quotidien, et nous entendons rarement, sinon jamais, les mots filicide et néonaticide. Malheureusement, au Canada et aux États-Unis, les feux de l'actualité sont présentement braqués sur l'infanticide, meurtre d'un enfant, le filicide, meurtre de son propre enfant, et le néonaticide, filicide dans les 24 heures suivant la naissance d'un enfant. Nous venons d'être témoins de deux différents cas de filicides.

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