ABSTRACT
According to an article published in 1999, more than 10,000 children had died in the previous decade at the hands of their parents or caretakers (Liang & Macfarlane, 1999). These tragedies were variously attributed to child abuse, of which deliberate child homicide would certainly be a segment. The focus here is on a subsection of that segment: homicides committed as a result of the mother’s postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis.
