Parents Who Kill

Parents Who Kill: Murderers of Newborn, Pre-Teen and Teenage Children

Parents Who Kill was written by and Carol Anne Davis. The 324 page book was published by John Blake in 2014 (originally in 2009) with an ISBN 10 of 1782197400. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Parents Who Kill mentions 1 serial killers including Janie Lou Gibbs. The author Carol Anne Davis has 6 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

From the author of Children Who Kill and Women Who Kill, an exploration of why parents do the unthinkable Maria Colwell, Jasmine Beckford, "Baby P"—every time a child dies violently, the public reels at the suggestion that a parent may have been involved. Carol Anne Davis seeks to answer the question of how the protective instinct sometimes fails and why some parents fatally harm their own children. Examining the tragic phenomena of infanticide and child murder, she explores cases of neglected or abused children who grow up to batter their own babies, religious and sexual taboos which lead to so called "honor killings," as well as the processes of score-settling in relationships, postnatal depression, psychosis, and many other murder trigge...