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From governments that enapt 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, and filicide are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity. What is endorsed in literature, biblical story, and fairy tale is condemned in popular culture. Taking an objective and diagnostic approach, Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill examines the crime of neonaticide from all angles including historical, cultural, psychological, and legal. The book details child homicide in its many forms such as shaken baby syndrome and Munchhausen by Proxy as well as the differing circumstances involved in infanticide and filicide. Unlike many books on the subject, it investigates the behaviour of the father - responsible in roughly 75 percent of these cases - whether aggressive, compolicit, or merely absent, and his ultimate culpability under the law ...

Divorce mediators, attorneys, judges, and psychologists approach the issues in marriage dissolution from disparate vantage points. Legal niceties, actuarial acrobatics, and egosaving mechanisms tend to dominate the proceedings. Too often, however, some of the professionals have neither the training nor the experience to recognize the potential impact of such decisions on the children of divorce. The children rarely have an advocate whose sole task it is to make certain that their "best interests" are truly served. Questions are raised and suggestions for research are offered in an effort to reduce children's victimization and enable them to emerge as winners.