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Filicide
Deliberate act of a parent killing their own child / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For animals, see Infanticide (zoology).
Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word filicide is derived from the Latin words filius and filia ('son' and 'daughter') and the suffix -cide, from the word caedere meaning 'to kill'. The word can refer to both the crime and perpetrator of the crime.
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