Child abuse
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Child abuse is physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child, especially by a parent or a caregiver. Child abuse may include any act or failure to act by a parent
Rib fractures in an infant secondary to child abuse
A girl who was burned during religious violence in Orissa, India
A child soldier in El Salvador, 1990
Attacks on schoolgirls in Afghanistan are common
Filicide
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Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word filicide is derived from the Latin words filius and filia and the suffix -cide, from the word caedere meaning 'to kill'. Th
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…commonplace and widespread, and corporal punishment was customary in many countries, but in the first half of the 19th century, pathologists studying filicide (the parental killing of children) reported cases of death from paternal rage, recurrent physical maltreatment, starvation, and sexual abuse. In an…
Painting by Peter Paul Rubens of Cronus devouring one of his children
Postumius kills his son for betraying his orders by Domenico Beccafumi
Constantine the Great, who executed his son for unknown reasons
Saturn Devouring His Son, by Francisco de Goya