When asked, in
an interview with CNN, what prompted her to write her first book,
"Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Parricide",
Kathleen Heide, a professor of criminology at the University of
South Florida, Tampa, responded by saying that she was inspired to
after receiving a phone call from "a good kid" who killed his
mother and father. The childs parents were alcoholics who abused
him for several years and despite having three petitions for abuse
filed against them by the state social service agency and the
courts establishing that they were in fact abusing the child, they
still maintained custody of him. Nine months after the social
service agency no longer supervised them, the child murdered his
parents. During the phone call, the boy told Heide that someone had
to tell the story about kids like him. The term parricide
technically
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In her article,
Turning the Tables: Redefining Self-Defense Theory for Children Who
Kill Abusive Parents, Jennifer R. James, an Attending
Neonatologist, maintains that there are three main reasons a child
commits parricide. (1) the severely abused child who is pushed
beyond his or her limits, (2) the severely mentally ill child, and
(3) the dangerously antisocial child (393). Likewise, the authors
of Factors of Parricide: Allowance of the Use of Battered Child
Syndrome as a Defense, Jessica L. Hart and Jeffrey L. Helms,
support James claim that abuse is one the major factors people
commit parricide but, they argue that It is rare that adult
offenders kill a parent in retaliation of abuse. Adults usually
have the resources and choices that allow them to leave a situation
that they do not
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