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01-02-2019 | Editorial

Filicide research in the twenty-first century

Authors: Claudia M. Klier, Jane Fisher, Prabha S. Chandra, Margaret Spinelli

Published in: Archives of Women's Mental Health | Issue 1/2019

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There are few topics that invoke social taboos the way filicide does; parents are bound to protect their children not simply by virtue of evolutionary biology but also by the considerable array of social mores that govern notions of appropriate parenting. The care of children is the single most important task a parent has, making the breach of this duty a virtually incomprehensible event. It is perhaps this unintelligibility of reason that has made the field of filicide research a relatively modest one. …

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Title: Filicide research in the twenty-first century
Authors: Claudia M. Klier
Jane Fisher
Prabha S. Chandra
Margaret Spinelli
Publication date: 01-02-2019
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Archives of Women's Mental Health / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1434-1816
Electronic ISSN: 1435-1102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-018-0924-0

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