Women Who Kill Their Children Are Not So Bad, Says Psychologist
Sunday, July 13, 2014 - 10:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Neonaticide and infanticide are horrible crimes to most people but in psychology it's all relative. Dr. Helen Gavin, a psychologist at the University of Huddersfield, and Dr. Theresa Porter, a clinical psychologist based at a hospital in Connecticut, think that such murderers are getting a bad rap in culture, so they wrote "Infanticide and Neonaticide: A Review of 40 Years of Research Literature on Incidence and Causes" for Trauma, Violence and Abuse to rationalize that women who kill their babies – either within 24 hours of birth (neonaticide) – or at a later stage (infanticide), are not simply simply monsters or psychotic or both. It's complex, they wrote. read more