%0 Journal Article
%T Filicide
%A Ashish Saraf
%A Navneet Ateriya
%A Puneet Setia
%A Raghvendra Singh Shekhawat
%A Tanuj Kanchan
%A Vikas P Meshram
%J Medico
%@ 2042-1834
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0025817218787392
%X Dyadic suicides may be committed simultaneously or one after another by two or more people who may or may not have made a prior pact. The perpetrator is usually male and their victims female, and generally their intimate partners, with children less commonly involved. Another distinct type of homicide-suicide is the killing of children by a parent (filicide-suicide). The terms ¡®maternal filicide¡¯ or ¡®paternal filicide¡¯ are used respectively when the perpetrator is the mother or the father of the victim. We report a rare case of maternal filicide, where the mother drowned her three children and then herself in the same water tank. The case highlights the extreme stress put on a mother of girls in a patriarchal society where there is an overriding expectation and wish for sons. The resulting pressure on this mother for her ¡®failure¡¯ caused her to take her own and her children's lives
%K Dyadic deaths
%K filicide
%K mother drowns her three daughters and then herself
%K stressors
%K patriarchal society
%K expectation of a son
%K autopsy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0025817218787392