TY - JOUR
T1 - Murdered women’s children: A social emergency and gloomy reality
AU - Ferrara, Pietro
AU - Ianniello, Francesca
AU - Semeraro, Lorenzo
AU - Franc-Eschini, Giulia
AU - Lo Scalzo, Lucia
AU - Giardino, Ida
AU - Corsello, Giovanni
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Femicide, defined as the killing of females by males because they are females, is becoming recognized worldwide as an important ongoing manifestation of gender inequality. Actual or imminent separation, abuser’s access to firearms, prior threats with a weapon, prior threats to kill the victim, a stepchild in the household, problematic alcohol and illicit drug use, as well as mental health problems, are associated with a substantially higher risk of femicide. Little is known about the number of orphaned children who have instantaneously lost both parents. Sparse attention has been focused on children whose mother was murdered: these are difficult cases for child psychiatry teams. Decisions about protection could be made by judges, the police, social workers or officers that attend victims, on the basis of empirical data and not merely by using intuitive criteria.
AB - Femicide, defined as the killing of females by males because they are females, is becoming recognized worldwide as an important ongoing manifestation of gender inequality. Actual or imminent separation, abuser’s access to firearms, prior threats with a weapon, prior threats to kill the victim, a stepchild in the household, problematic alcohol and illicit drug use, as well as mental health problems, are associated with a substantially higher risk of femicide. Little is known about the number of orphaned children who have instantaneously lost both parents. Sparse attention has been focused on children whose mother was murdered: these are difficult cases for child psychiatry teams. Decisions about protection could be made by judges, the police, social workers or officers that attend victims, on the basis of empirical data and not merely by using intuitive criteria.
KW - Child
KW - Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
KW - Emergency
KW - Emergency Medicine
KW - Femicide
KW - Child
KW - Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
KW - Emergency
KW - Emergency Medicine
KW - Femicide
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/120837
UR - http://www.signavitae.com/
U2 - 10.22514/SV141.052018.12
DO - 10.22514/SV141.052018.12
M3 - Article
SN - 1334-5605
VL - 14
SP - 71
EP - 74
JO - Signa Vitae
JF - Signa Vitae
ER -