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200 10$aMothers who kill their children$b[electronic resource] $eunderstanding the acts of moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom" /$fCheryl L. Meyer and Michelle Oberman ; with Kelly White ... [et al.]
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2001
215   $a1 online resource (224 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-211) and index.
327   $a""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: A Brief Cross-Cultural History of Infanticide""; ""1. Previous Attempts to Understand Why Mothers Kill Their Children""; ""2. Denial of Pregnancy: Secret Lives""; ""3. Purposeful Killing: Neither Mad nor Bad""; ""4. Maternal Neglect: A Search for Meaning""; ""5. Abuse-Related Deaths""; ""6. Assistance or Coercion from a Partner: Relations to Domestic Violence""
327   $a""7. Responding to Mothers Who Kill: Toward a Comprehensive Rethinking of Law, Policy, and Intervention Strategies""""Notes""; ""Index""; ""About the Authors""
330   $aA special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as those of Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons by driving her car into a lake, and Melissa Drexler, who disposed of her newborn baby in a restroom at her prom, become media sensations. Unfortunately, in addition to these high-profile cases, hundreds of mothers kill their children in the United States each year. The question most often asked is, why? What would drive a mother to kill her own child?   Those who work with such cases, whether in clinical psychology, social services, law enforcement or ac
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