Some parents experience considerable difficulties in adapting to and caring for their new infant, and despite current levels of medical and social perinatal support and intervention, things sometimes go badly wrong. This article describes the features of parents who kill an infant under 1 year of age and summarises current research findings about infant homicide.
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Marks et al. (1995) studied this question.
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