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Article: Mad women and desperate girls: infanticide and child murder in law and myth.
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- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion for the child she has borne?" (1)
Scarlet the Cat of Brooklyn, NY: "In a motherly show of courage, a cat raced into a burning building to rescue her five kittens, one by one. And then with her eyes blistered shut and her paws burned, she made a head count of her young ones, touching each one with her nose to make sure they were all safe." (2)
In the United States, unlike the United Kingdom and many other countries, there is no distinctive legislation addressing the killing of infants and young children by their mothers. While our British cousins embarked upon a course of special ...