The authors from Nimhans quoted well-known American psychiatrist Phillip Resnick, who in 1969 had classified filicide into five types based on ‘motives’ behind the act. The fifth type is the spouse-revenge-filicide, where one parent displaces anger towards the child secondary to ongoing severe marital discord, and jealousy”. They found “consistent associations with family stressors, including severe marital discord, jealousy, unemployment, …
With one child killed by a parent every fortnight in Australia, some of the biggest red flags for filicide are being catastrophically missed. "Unfortunately, I still think — and see evidence of the fact — that many different professionals across many different sectors underestimate the risk of family violence to children." "What we see very often is services that have …
