>>11172I've chewed this over for a couple of days and I'm not sure I can swallow it. Because, on the subject of women who kill:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2174580/>Resnick's review of the world psychiatric literature on maternal filicide (11) found filicidal mothers to have frequent depression, psychosis, prior mental health treatment, and suicidal thoughts. Maternal filicide perpetrators have five major motives: a) in an altruistic filicide, a mother kills her child out of love; she believes death to be in the child's best interest (for example, a suicidal mother may not wish to leave her motherless child to face an intolerable world; or a psychotic mother may believe that she is saving her child from a fate worse than death); b) in an acutely psychotic filicide, a psychotic or delirious mother kills her child without any comprehensible motive (for example, a mother may follow command hallucinations to kill); c) when fatal maltreatment filicide occurs, death is usually not the anticipated outcome; it results from cumulative child abuse, neglect, or Munchausen syndrome by proxy; d) in an unwanted child filicide, a mother thinks of her child as a hindrance; e) the most rare, spouse revenge filicide occurs when a mother kills her child specifically to emotionally harm that child's father.So, motives for killing an innocent child by the child's mother are:
1. crazy, 2. crazy, 3. incompetent and crazy, 4. very late abortion, and 5. Revenge against someone who is not the child.
Revenge is the rarest of these motives because it occurs in individuals with ordered, organized thoughts and the possibility of well ordered and self organized lives. But it's the single big reason out of all of the intense negative emotions that motherhood, adulthood, or heterosexual relationships bring. Nowhere on this list does "jealousy" appear as a motive for mother-daughter murder even though it is an unfortunately common form of maternal resentment and is also an unfortunately common motive for woman-on-woman homicides (like Homolka getting her bf to murder her sister).
I don't believe revenge is necessarily surgically precise, not even when mothers do it.
