Society & Health Research Center (CISS), Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
Monash Deakin Filicide Research Hub, Department of Social Work, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Arch Womens Ment Health. 2019 Oct;22(5):569-573. doi: 10.1007/s00737-018-0922-2. Epub 2018 Oct 24.
Pregnancy and motherhood are often presented as natural and unproblematic for women. The fact that there are some women who engage in violent behaviour towards their unborn child suggests that motherhood is not as unproblematic as we are led to believe. This paper presents six previously unpublished cases of foetal abuse that is physical assaults on the foetus by the mothers themselves, and examines how the prevailing myth of the good mother might be further endangering mothers and their unborn children. So far, the research suggests there are some common, possibly co-occurring, features that might be an antecedent to foetal abuse: unplanned pregnancies, prior mental health issues in the mother, trauma, pregnancy denial up to 20 weeks or until birth, and ideation of harm correlated to in utero movements.
怀孕和做母亲通常被认为是女性自然而然且不会产生问题的事情。然而，有些女性会对自己未出生的孩子实施暴力行为，这表明做母亲并不像我们想象的那样毫无问题。本文介绍了六个以前未发表的胎儿虐待案例，这些案例是母亲本人对胎儿的身体攻击，并探讨了流行的好母亲的神话如何进一步危及母亲及其未出生的孩子。到目前为止，研究表明，可能存在一些共同的、可能同时存在的特征，这些特征可能是胎儿虐待的前兆：意外怀孕、母亲先前的心理健康问题、创伤、怀孕否认长达 20 周或直到分娩，以及与宫内运动相关的伤害观念。
