filicide


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filicide

(ˈfɪlɪˌsaɪd)
n
1. the act of killing one's own son or daughter
2. a person who does this
[C17: from Latin fīlius son or fīlia daughter + -cide]
ˌfiliˈcidal adj
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filicide

1. a parent who kills a son or daughter.
2. the killing of a son or daughter by a parent. — filicidal, adj.
See also: Children
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.filicide - a parent who murders his own son or daughter
parent - a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
2.filicide - the murder of your own son or daughter
murder, slaying, execution - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
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Do you want to celebrate filicide? Probably not, and neither did the rabbis.
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Catholic and evangelical groups protested abortion with the slogan, "Argentina, filicide (killing one's children) will be your ruin."
Verasani openly criticized the manipulation of the media, the knee-jerk nature of the judgments that generally characterizes episodes of filicide, compared to the complexity that lay behind the action of Medea.
By engaging in these ways--from the field of Latin American literary studies--in dialogue with ideas drawn from contemporary psychological theory and practice, the aim here is foster an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to issues raised by the urgent public health problem that is domestic violence and its multiple types of violence including homicide, femicide, filicide, neo-naticide, infanticide, suicide.
Rejecting the accusations of madness, Taylor explains Margaret's action through altruistic filicide, (mercy killing) a psychological term used to define a parent who believes that he or she is saving the child from an unbearable condition, disease, or anticipated suffering.
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Summary: Kollam (Kerala) [India], Jan 19 (ANI): In a case of filicide, a 43-year-old woman was arrested on Friday for allegedly killing her teenager son in Kerala's Kollam.
Love is a good thing, to be sure, but it would be even better if manifested without anyone having to kill anyone, least of all in the form of filicide or suicide (as discussed in this note), and better still if realized freely by everyone, without a command backed by the threat of punishment (as discussed in the main text).