Ateriya Navneet, Saraf Ashish, Kanchan Tanuj, Meshram Vikas P, Singh Shekhawat Raghvendra, Setia Puneet
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India.
Med Leg J. 2019 Mar;87(1):44-46. doi: 10.1177/0025817218787392. Epub 2018 Jul 11.
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.
双人自杀可能由两个或更多人同时或相继实施，他们可能事先有约定，也可能没有。行凶者通常为男性，受害者通常为女性，且一般是其亲密伴侣，儿童较少涉及。另一种独特的杀人和自杀类型是父母杀害子女（杀子自杀）。当行凶者是受害者的母亲或父亲时，分别使用“母亲杀子”或“父亲杀子”这两个术语。我们报告了一例罕见的母亲杀子案件，母亲将她的三个孩子淹死在同一个水箱中，随后自己也溺亡。该案例凸显了在父权社会中，身为女孩母亲所承受的巨大压力，在这种社会中，生儿子的期望和愿望压倒一切。因“未能如愿”而给这位母亲带来的压力导致她结束了自己和孩子们的生命。
