ABSTRACT
Since the beginning of our project in 1986 up to 1993, when the first edition of this book appeared, we had personally seen 111 children from 53 families in which one parent killed the other. We had offered consultation to professionals dealing with children, families and other carers in 9 other cases involving 19 children. Overall, therefore, we had heard the stories of, and turned our minds to the difficulties for, 130 children from 62 families devastated by the loss of their parents in this cruel way. In 6 cases the mother killed the father; in the rest (56 cases) it was the father that was the assailant, the mother the victim.
