Child Homicide Parents Who Kill 1st Edition by Lita Linzer Schwartz, Natalie Isser ISBN 0849393663 9780849393662

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ISBN 10: 0849393663 
ISBN 13: 9780849393662
Author: Lita Linzer Schwartz, Natalie Isser

From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavorably gendered infant to perish rather than expend limited resources, neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide, are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity.Taking

Child Homicide Parents Who Kill 1st Table of contents:

1 Children: An Endangered Species throughout History
Gender and Child Homicide
The Literary Legacy
Legacies of Ancient Cultures
Mythologies
Fairy Tales
Child Homicide in Literature and Opera
2 Neonaticide in Theory and in History: Who Are the Perpetrators?
Sociobiological Perspectives
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
A Brief Look at Asian Cultures
Cultural Causes in the West
An Historical Perspective
Abandonment
Penalties of the Past
Summary
3 Motives for Murder
Why Murder?
Neonaticide
Psychological Explanations
The Role of Shame
Denial of Pregnancy
Psychological/Psychiatric Diagnoses
Reaction and Revenge
Infanticide and Filicide
Personal Gain
Summary
4 Neonaticide and Its Alternatives
Options in Pregnancy
Abortion
Carrying the Pregnancy to Term
Mothering
A Comment on “Illegitimacy”
Place for Adoption
Abandonment
Neonaticide
Why Neonaticide?
5 Neonaticide and the Law
Legal Ramifications
Variations in Charges and Sentencing
Should Neonaticide Be Punished? If So, How?
Anglo-American Laws and Sentencing
British Law
American Law
Sentencing Alternatives
What about the Fathers?
Concluding Comments
6 In Transition: From One Form of Child Homicide to Another
Neonaticide Syndrome
Shaken Baby Syndrome/Shaking Impact Syndrome
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP)
Gaining Evidence
Conclusion
7 Postpartum Depression Disorders
Differentiating the Disorders
Case Examples
The Andrea Yates Case
Other Cases
What Can Be Done
Early Diagnosis
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
Legal Controversies
8 Infanticide and Filicide by Parents and Their Surrogates
Motives
What Kind of Parent… ?
Other Motives
Faith Healing
Cultural Differences
Paternal Homicide
Child Abuse
Legal Ramifications
The Survivors
If These Are the Causes…
9 Neonaticide, Infanticide, Filicide, and the Law
The Insanity Defense
Postpartum Depression versus Postpartum Psychosis
Alternative Defenses
In Defense of the Defendant
Variations in Penalties
An Interesting Question
Are the Laws Antifemale?
Looking Back and Ahead
10 Choice and Reproduction: Political and Other Arguments
The Abortion Controversy
Religious Views
Language and Imagery
In the Courts
Does Fetus = Person?
Euthanasia and Infanticide
To Treat or Not to Treat
Conjoined Twins
Legislative and Judicial Responses
Eugenics, Mercy-Killing, and Euthanasia
The Parental Positions
Closing Thoughts
11 Child Homicide: Preventive Measures
Prevention of Neonaticide
Sex Education
Pregnancy Prevention
Secondary Prevention
Preventing Infanticide and Filicide
Other Alternatives
Adoption
Foster Home Placement
Summarizing the Alternatives
12 Concluding Thoughts and Recommendations
Provide Information
Therapeutic Rehabilitation
The Role of Therapeutic Jurisprudence

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