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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Murdered women’s children: A social emergency and gloomy reality
Francesca IannielloLucia Lo ScalzoIda GiardinoGiovanni CorselloGiulia FranceschiniPietro FerraraPietro FerraraLorenzo Semerarosubject
Gender inequalityChild; Emergency; Femicide; Emergency Medicine; Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicinechild emergency femicideEmpirical datamedicine.medical_specialtySocial workbusiness.industryFemicidechild; emergency; femicide030232 urology & nephrologyCriminologyCritical Care and Intensive Care MedicineMental health03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineSettore MED/38 - PEDIATRIA GENERALE E SPECIALISTICAEmergencyChild and adolescent psychiatryEmergency MedicineIllicit drugMedicine030212 general & internal medicinebusinessChildFemicidedescription
Femicide, defined as the killing of females by males because they are females, is be-coming recognized worldwide as an im-portant ongoing manifestation of gender inequality. Actual or imminent separation, abuser’s access to firearms, prior threats with a weapon, prior threats to kill the victim, a stepchild in the household, prob-lematic alcohol and illicit drug use, as well as mental health problems, are associated with a substantially higher risk of femi-cide. Little is known about the number of orphaned children who have instantane-ously lost both parents. Sparse attention has been focused on children whose moth-er was murdered: these are difficult cases for child psychiatry teams. Decisions about protection could be made by judges, the police, social workers or officers that at-tend victims, on the basis of empirical data and not merely by using intuitive criteria.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-01 | Signa vitae : journal for intesive care and emergency medicine |