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Recent Examples of filicide
One study of maternal filicide observed that, whereas psychotic mothers often acted suddenly, depressed mothers tended to contemplate killing their children for days or weeks before acting.
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Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Each was a tragedy, but maternal filicide falls low on the register of reasons for infant death.
—Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
In Massachusetts, a horrific case of filicide has reawakened difficult talks about postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, which are known to be under-diagnosed and under-treated in women who recently gave birth.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
Podcasters, reporters and TV producers rushed to South Carolina to tell a Shakespearean story of filicide, anchored by a main character whose button-down shirts seem to cover a terrifying moral void.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
Supplementary Homicide Reports in 2014 to determine that filicide – a parent’s act of killing his or her child or children – occurs on average 500 times per year in the United States.
—Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
Crimes of the Future Rated R for filicide, surgeries and power-drill violence.
—New York Times, 2 June 2022
But most filicides are considered altruistic killing.
—Bree Burkitt, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2020
Oberman, who wrote two books on the subject of filicide, said many of the women who commit those murders are often isolated in their motherhood and have mental health issues or previous trauma.
—Bree Burkitt, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2020
Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Each was a tragedy, but maternal filicide falls low on the register of reasons for infant death.
—Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
In Massachusetts, a horrific case of filicide has reawakened difficult talks about postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, which are known to be under-diagnosed and under-treated in women who recently gave birth.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
Podcasters, reporters and TV producers rushed to South Carolina to tell a Shakespearean story of filicide, anchored by a main character whose button-down shirts seem to cover a terrifying moral void.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
Supplementary Homicide Reports in 2014 to determine that filicide – a parent’s act of killing his or her child or children – occurs on average 500 times per year in the United States.
—Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
Crimes of the Future Rated R for filicide, surgeries and power-drill violence.
—New York Times, 2 June 2022
But most filicides are considered altruistic killing.
—Bree Burkitt, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2020
Oberman, who wrote two books on the subject of filicide, said many of the women who commit those murders are often isolated in their motherhood and have mental health issues or previous trauma.
—Bree Burkitt, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filicide
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However, Daniel's hold over Luke proves to be strong, and almost leads him to commit matricide.Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Sep. 2022
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The reasons were vague, the usual grab bag of crimes—matricide, acting, that sort of thing.Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
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Macron’s ascent to the presidency began, like a certain Greek tragedy, with parricide.Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018
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Everything seems to be pointing toward parricide, but the future is no simpler than the past.Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 2 Jan. 2020
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The movie includes intense domestic abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), gun violence, death and descriptions of patricide.Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
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It’s done in the saddest way, with the original sin of patricide.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
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This can particularly be a problem when aircraft are supporting ground troops in combat, a sometimes confusing situation where mistakes can lead to fratricide.Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2018
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Here, Hamlet is a melancholy suburban prince named Juicy, in a Black family rocked by betrayal and fratricide and ghosts who pop out of backyard grills.Chris Richards, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
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The raw power grab that excites Lady Macbeth and incites her husband to regicide feels especially pertinent now, when the dangers of autocracy loom over political discussions.Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
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Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
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That changed in February, when the state located the necessary drugs and planned to execute Thomas Creech, who was convicted of five murders in three states.Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Additionally, authorities say Gonzalez-Nunez associated himself with Norteño gang members who were responsible for murders around the area.Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Kamp previously worked as a shift commander, gang enforcement sergeant and homicide detective for the Phoenix Police Department.Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago.Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Filicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filicide. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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