Children Who Kill Parents

What drives a child to kill a parent? Psychologists can tell us in hindsight what factors prompted a child to get to the point of murdering one or both of their parents, but how can you tell before the fact? In these profiles of cases in which parents were killed, you will see that the motives are different in each individual case. Read more...

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