Filicide

Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. In some cultures, killing a daughter who is deemed to have disgraced the family is a common occurrence, and is called honor killing.
A 1999 US Department of Justice Study concluded that between 1976 and 1997 in the United States, mothers were responsible for a higher share of children killed during infancy while fathers were more likely to have been responsible for the murders of children age 8 or older. Sometimes there is a combination of murder and suicide in filicide cases.

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