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Femicide and murdered women’s children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent?

BACKGROUND: To assess the prevalence of femicides in Italy over the last three years and the potential long lasting effects of these traumatic events for the children of a woman who dies a violent death. METHODS: The data used in this study come from an internet search for the number of femicides oc...

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Autores principales: Ferrara, Pietro, Caporale, Olga, Cutrona, Costanza, Sbordone, Annamaria, Amato, Maria, Spina, Giulia, Ianniello, Francesca, Fabrizio, Giovanna Carmela, Guadagno, Chiara, Basile, Maria Cristina, Miconi, Francesco, Perrone, Giacomo, Riccardi, Riccardo, Verrotti, Alberto, Pettoello-Mantovani, Massimo, Villani, Alberto, Corsello, Giovanni, Scambia, Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4587811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26416660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-015-0173-z
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author Ferrara, Pietro
Caporale, Olga
Cutrona, Costanza
Sbordone, Annamaria
Amato, Maria
Spina, Giulia
Ianniello, Francesca
Fabrizio, Giovanna Carmela
Guadagno, Chiara
Basile, Maria Cristina
Miconi, Francesco
Perrone, Giacomo
Riccardi, Riccardo
Verrotti, Alberto
Pettoello-Mantovani, Massimo
Villani, Alberto
Corsello, Giovanni
Scambia, Giovanni
author_facet Ferrara, Pietro
Caporale, Olga
Cutrona, Costanza
Sbordone, Annamaria
Amato, Maria
Spina, Giulia
Ianniello, Francesca
Fabrizio, Giovanna Carmela
Guadagno, Chiara
Basile, Maria Cristina
Miconi, Francesco
Perrone, Giacomo
Riccardi, Riccardo
Verrotti, Alberto
Pettoello-Mantovani, Massimo
Villani, Alberto
Corsello, Giovanni
Scambia, Giovanni
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description BACKGROUND: To assess the prevalence of femicides in Italy over the last three years and the potential long lasting effects of these traumatic events for the children of a woman who dies a violent death. METHODS: The data used in this study come from an internet search for the number of femicides occurring in Italy between 1(st) January, 2012 and 31(st) October, 2014. RESULTS: The total number of femicides was 319; the average age of murdered women was 47.50 ± 19.26. Cold arms in the form of sharp object -mostly knives- have caused the death of 102/319 women; firearms were used in 87/319 cases; asphyxiation was the chosen method in 52/319 cases. About the place where the femicides occurred, 209/319 were committed inside the victim’s house. Children of women who died a violent death were 417 with a total of 180 minors in less than three years. A total of 52/417 children were witness to the killing and, among these 30/52 were minors; in 18/417 cases, children were murdered together with their mother and among these 9/18 were minors. CONCLUSIONS: Long-term studies are needed to ascertain what happens to these children, to understand what are the most appropriate psychological treatments, the best decisions about the contact with their father and the best placement for these children.
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spelling pubmed-45878112015-09-30 Femicide and murdered women’s children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent? Ferrara, Pietro Caporale, Olga Cutrona, Costanza Sbordone, Annamaria Amato, Maria Spina, Giulia Ianniello, Francesca Fabrizio, Giovanna Carmela Guadagno, Chiara Basile, Maria Cristina Miconi, Francesco Perrone, Giacomo Riccardi, Riccardo Verrotti, Alberto Pettoello-Mantovani, Massimo Villani, Alberto Corsello, Giovanni Scambia, Giovanni Ital J Pediatr Research BACKGROUND: To assess the prevalence of femicides in Italy over the last three years and the potential long lasting effects of these traumatic events for the children of a woman who dies a violent death. METHODS: The data used in this study come from an internet search for the number of femicides occurring in Italy between 1(st) January, 2012 and 31(st) October, 2014. RESULTS: The total number of femicides was 319; the average age of murdered women was 47.50 ± 19.26. Cold arms in the form of sharp object -mostly knives- have caused the death of 102/319 women; firearms were used in 87/319 cases; asphyxiation was the chosen method in 52/319 cases. About the place where the femicides occurred, 209/319 were committed inside the victim’s house. Children of women who died a violent death were 417 with a total of 180 minors in less than three years. A total of 52/417 children were witness to the killing and, among these 30/52 were minors; in 18/417 cases, children were murdered together with their mother and among these 9/18 were minors. CONCLUSIONS: Long-term studies are needed to ascertain what happens to these children, to understand what are the most appropriate psychological treatments, the best decisions about the contact with their father and the best placement for these children. BioMed Central 2015-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4587811/ /pubmed/26416660 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-015-0173-z Text en © Ferrara et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ferrara, Pietro
Caporale, Olga
Cutrona, Costanza
Sbordone, Annamaria
Amato, Maria
Spina, Giulia
Ianniello, Francesca
Fabrizio, Giovanna Carmela
Guadagno, Chiara
Basile, Maria Cristina
Miconi, Francesco
Perrone, Giacomo
Riccardi, Riccardo
Verrotti, Alberto
Pettoello-Mantovani, Massimo
Villani, Alberto
Corsello, Giovanni
Scambia, Giovanni
Femicide and murdered women’s children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent?
title Femicide and murdered women’s children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent?
title_full Femicide and murdered women’s children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent?
title_fullStr Femicide and murdered women’s children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent?
title_full_unstemmed Femicide and murdered women’s children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent?
title_short Femicide and murdered women’s children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent?
title_sort femicide and murdered women’s children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent?
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4587811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26416660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-015-0173-z
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