(n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The administration of para-chloro-D, L-phenylalanine (PCPA) produces a high incidence of aggressive (filicidal) behavior in pre-, postpartum, and nulliparious rodents.
(2) Neither the parturition process nor severe food deprivation are strong causative factors in the precipitation of filicidal behavior.
(3) After briefly summarizing the allegorical implications of the various forgotten Oedipus myths and the father's fateful role within the Theban tragedy, this paper elaborates on those pederastic and filicidal inclinations that I believe to be universal among fathers.
(4) The retrospective nature of filicide research and the small sample size of cases exacerbated difficulties in carrying out such research, the inquest heard.
(5) A number of significant issues are dealt with including consequences of failure to elicit positive family history of affective disorder, suicide and filicide.
(6) Types of filicide were compared on a number of social and psychiatric characteristics and on their offence patterns and court disposals.
(7) The authors point to problems in differential diagnosis in the framework of other subjects like 'non-accidental poisoning', 'doctor-shopping' and 'filicide'.
(8) No one person or agency could have reasonably been expected to foresee that Mr Anderson would be that rare perpetrator, and Luke the rare victim, of a violent filicide.” Rosie Batty, named Australian of the year for 2015 because of her advocacy on family violence, said that this was a “monumental day” and it did bring a degree of closure for her.
(9) I would most definitely want them to know what filicide is and what the risks are so that every professional recognises those risk factors and they are incorporated into family violence education frameworks.” On Wednesday, a detective who questioned Luke last year was asked about the way she assessed his risk of harm, and why she concluded he was safe.
(10) Indeed, a history of familial double filicide raises the question of possible hereditary influences.
(11) Deaths were classified based on the total information available into group A: poor prognosis (n = 7), group B: treatable disease (n = 45), group C: minor disease (n = 32), group D: no disease (n = 19), group E: probably accidental (n = 4), and group F: probably filicide (n = 8).
(12) Most of the filicidal acts committed by these chronically impaired men resulted from isolated explosive behavior.
(13) Six types of maternal filicide were distinguished: battering mothers (36 cases), mentally ill mothers (24 cases), neonaticides (11 cases), retaliating mothers (9 cases), women who killed unwanted children (8 cases) and mercy killing (1 case).
(14) Latency of attack, intensity phases, and characteristics of the filicidal behavior were found to vary inversely with brain serotonin content, and be reversed or eliminated by replacement of serotonin i.e., via 5-hydroxytryptophan, serotonin's immediate precursor.
(15) The authors analysed the autopsic material of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Belgrade related to a sixty-year period (1920-1980) and found 26 cases of filicide.
(16) Filicide is the term denoting murder of a child by one of his (her) parents.
(17) It lies solely on Greg Anderson.” But filicide, the act of a parent deliberately killing their child, was rare and there were no good risk assessment tools to determine the likelihood a parent might commit the crime, Gray said.
(18) On the basis of this finding, the authors concluded that filicide was not very frequent in this area.
(19) Compared with filicides, matricides were significantly older, were single, and more often suffered from mental illness and substance abuse.
(20) A survey of twelve families with 2 or more cot deaths showed that in two families the deaths were completely unexplained; in three the babies had a probably familial developmental disorder; in two the care of the infants was seriously at fault and could have contributed to death; and in five filicide was probable.
Infanticide
Definition:
(n.) The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.
(n.) One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) Males who developed in utero between two female fetuses, and were thus exposed to relatively low testosterone concentrations during fetal development, were significantly more likely to exhibit infanticide--both before and after mating--than were males who developed between two male fetuses.
(3) Hamster litters were left undisturbed till day 7 to minimise infanticide.
(4) This suggests that the maintenance of the suppression of infanticide in mothers owes something to the special circumstances of lactation other than continued exposure to young.
(5) It is suggested that either legislation should be amended to prohibit abortion after 18 to 20 weeks, or abortion to full term should be permitted and the possibility of legislation for infanticide be envisaged.
(6) Historic episodes of mass infanticide and practices in other cultures, while often cited as warnings of moral peril, are difficult to apply to the problem of infant euthanasia.
(7) A case is here described in which a woman was convicted of infanticide, and attempted infanticide, having been charged with murder and attempted murder.
(8) Virtually all adult wild males exhibited infanticide when they were tested in their home cages (with either a 2-day-old or 7-day-old pup) or when they were placed into the cages of lactating wild female mice and their 2-day-old young.
(9) Although attacks by females rarely thwarted infanticide by male intruders, the behavior may acutely protect parental investment.
(10) Infanticide could be important to curb recent and future population growth and the resulting pressure on the land.
(11) The data essentially show that, in a house mouse population, there is a behavioral polymorphism in response to the coexisting multiple mechanisms which mediate the inhibition of infanticide.
(12) This was the most important impulse for the development of the legal medicine in Germany as the courts now found themselves constrained to hear physicians, barber surgeons or midwives in cases of abortion, infanticidal, poisoning, murder or manslaughter.
(13) Virtually all wild males exhibit infanticide prior to mating, but virrually all wild males were inhibited from exhibiting infanticide 3 weeks after mating whether they were placed into the cage of their former mate and her litter or into the cage of an unfamiliar female and her litter, similar to the effect of mating on the behavior of CF-1 male mice toward young.
(14) The hypothesis, advanced by Asch (Mt Sinai J Med NY 35:214-220, 1968), that a majority of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases are actually infanticides, is addressed by examination of age comparable infant homicide rates (United States, 1950-1974) and consideration of current theory regarding SIDS pathogenesis.
(15) Infant mortality through infanticide was recorded in undisturbed and tested hamsters.
(16) It is proposed, therefore, that this psychosis is in fact, in most instances, a form of ergotism and its signs and symptoms and consequences, including coincidental infanticide, themselves are actually manifestations of acute ergot poisoning.
(17) Finally, 35% of sows that produced cubs ceased lactation early, and this loss of entire litters was thought to be due to infanticide by dominant sows.
(18) The socio-sexual factors mediating the inhibition of pup-killing in previously infanticidal Swiss Webster male mice (Mus domesticus) were examined.
(19) Five percent of the sample ultimately committed suicide, and the probable incidence of infanticide was 4%.
(20) Identifiable incidents include infanticide, injury, deliberate neglect, neglect due to ignorance and poverty, and accidents or poisonings where abuse appears to have been a factor.