Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide

by Kathleen M. Heide

Book Overview

Although the book is about murder. Heide does not limit herself to purely individual or family-based analysis. She is interested in connecting all the factors which lead to these tragic situations, in good and bad parenting and in social reform. It is this breadth of analysis which makes the book so readable and so useful. --Judith Bevan in ACCO Child Psychology & Psychiatry Review "This book is a compassionate examination of adolescent patricide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803970609
• ISBN13: 9780803970601
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great resource.

Great one-stop-shopping source for balanced information on parricide. Not as useful for the doomsday "something is wrong with the youth of today" readers.