Parents Killing Children: Crossing The Invisible Line

The book analyses the paradoxical effect of state intervention in six filicide cases. In these six stories, state intervention is a tragic and passive force in the lives of the deceased children. Using storytelling, six powerful parent perpetrator stories are weaved around the book¿s central themes of representation and intervention. These are stories of parents who portray themselves and are portrayed by others as loving, compliant and caring towards their children, and who were never thought of as dangerous prior to their crime, even by social workers. The book takes the reader through the lives of these parents and ultimately, to their final breaking points. Each analysis re-examines the confluence of events that led to the failure of state workers neutralising the danger to the child. The stories reveal certain risks of harm to the child that had been manifested, if not for the fact that they were often masked by the parent¿s outward loving demeanour towards the child. At its very heart, the book unpacks the complex symbolism of parental love.

• | Author: Janice Sim
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 318 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1472470745
• | ISBN-13: 9781472470744