"Children under the age of 5 in the United States are more likely to be killed by their parents than by anyone else. FBI crime stats show that in 1999 parents were responsible for 57% of these murders."
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7612/parents_who_murder_their_children.html?cat=48)
Det lär vara samma mönster i Sverige, i mindre skala.
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"Dr. Solomon and several other experts, including Dr. Julie Blackman, a psychologist who is writing a book about mothers who have killed their children, said some mothers appeared to be at least partly motivated by a need for attention and for publicity and sympathy that arise from false claims. But this condition, known as Munchausen-by-proxy, more often appears in mothers who have induced illness in their children, not killed them."
"Marjory Fisher, bureau chief of the Queens District Attorney's special victims bureau, who has prosecuted child abuse cases for more than 12 years, said that in many of those cases, a mother's male companion had killed the child, but the mother either did not intervene or tried to cover up for the man."