When Mothers Kill: Interviews from Prison Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
The Stories     9
The Saddest Stories     11
"She's the World to Me": The Mother-Daughter Relationships Described by Mothers Who Committed Filicide     23
Fighting for Love: Filicidal Mothers and Their Male Partners     47
Mothering: Hopes, Expectations, and Realities     67
Punishment, Shame, and Guilt     85
Making Sense of the Stories     101
Interactions with the State: Holes in the Safety Nets     103
The End of the Story     129
Methodology     143
Neonaticide     151
Mothers Who Purposely Kill Their Children     157
Notes     161
Index     175
About the Authors     179