Taking an objective and diagnostic approach, Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill examines the crime of child homicide from all angles including historical, cultural, psychological, and legal. Expanding on the original, published as Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infanticide, and Filicide, this edition details child homicide in its many forms, such as shaken baby syndrome and Munchausen-by-Proxy, as well as the differing circumstances involved in infanticide and filicide. Unlike many books on the subject, it highlights the behavior of the father (deemed responsible in roughly 75 percent of these cases), whether he is aggressive, complicit, or merely absent, and his ultimate culpability under the law.

Lita Linzer Schwartz, Natalie Isser

Children: An Endangered Species Throughout History. Neonaticide in Theory and in History: Who are the Perpetrators of Neonaticide? Motives for Murder. Neonaticide and Its Alternatives. Neonaticide and the Law. Infanticide and Filicide by Parents and Their Surrogates. Neonaticide, Infanticide, Filicide, and the Law. Choice and Reproduction: Political and Other Arguments. Child Homicide: Preventive Measures. Concluding Thoughts and Recommendations.