Re: women who kill their children

[Tasha Howe <thowe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A colleague of mine just wrote a book about child murders by family members.
It's called The Loss of Innocents by Cara Richards. She's an anthropologist so
it's quite qualitative but it might help.

Shauna Ezell wrote:

> Does anyone have a list of references or information regarding the etiology,
> personality styles, and/or environmental (including family dynamics) factors
> of women that kill their children?  I am not looking at physical abuse but
> rather an, intentional, homicidal act similar to the woman that drove her
> children into the lake and then claimed they had been abducted (was that the
> Susan Smith case?).  Thanks, Shauna Ezell
>
> sezell@lssia.org

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