Moms killing kids not nearly as rare as we think

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“The horrific stories make the headlines, so we believe it hardly ever happens,” says Meyer, a professor of psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. “But it’s not a rare thing.”

Meyer and co-author Michelle Oberman interviewed women at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. They found that of 1,800 women at the prison, 80 were there for killing their children.

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