@article{ref1, title="A comprehensive typology for the biopsychosociocultural evaluation of child-killing behavior", journal="Journal of forensic sciences", year="1998", author="Silva, J. A. and Leong, G. B. and Dassori, A. and Ferrari, M. M. and Weinstock, R. and Yamamoto, J.", volume="43", number="6", pages="1112-1118", abstract="The homicide of children by their parents has been reported across numerous cultural settings around the world and in many historical periods. A comprehensive and systematic understanding of parental child killing can be optimally obtained through a biopsychosociocultural approach. In this article we present the case of a woman who committed neonaticide. We illustrate the cultural formulation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) and recommend that this formulation has a central role in the evaluation of cultural factors of parents who kill their children.

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