The U.S. Must Do a Lot More to Prevent Infanticide

Maternal infanticide—the murder of a child in the first year of life by its mother—is a subject both compelling and repulsive.

The killing of an innocent elicits sorrow, anger, and horror. I feel it. Yet I know that the perpetrator of this act is often a victim, too, and that recognition makes for a more paradoxical response.

How can one consider that the Kansas City mom Mariah Thomas—who placed her baby in the oven—is a victim, when media reports describe her as a monster?

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