March 29, 2002
Why Infanticide Is More Common Than We Think
Andrea Yates is not an anomaly, says Cheryl L. Meyer, a lawyer and associate professor of psychology at Wright State University. "To the extent that we conceive of the crime of infanticide as a rare and exceptional act committed by a deranged or evil woman, we are dangerously wrong," she writes with Michelle Oberman in Women Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms From Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom" (New York University Press).
Q. You make an astounding claim: that at
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