Editing Mother (section)

==Mother-offspring violence==
{{main|Matricide|Filicide}}
[[Image:Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1862) - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Orestes Pursued by the Furies]]'' by [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]], 1862. [[Clytemnestra]] was murdered by [[Orestes]] and the [[Furies]] torment him for his crime.]]

History records many conflicts between mothers and their children. Some even resulted in [[murder]], such as the conflict between [[Cleopatra III of Egypt]] and her son [[Ptolemy X]].

In modern cultures, matricide (the killing of one's mother) and filicide (the killing of one's son or daughter) have been studied but remain poorly understood. [[Psychosis]] and [[schizophrenia]] are common causes of both,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bourget|first1=Dominique|last2=Gagné|first2=Pierre|last3=Labelle|first3=Mary-Eve|title=Parricide: A Comparative Study of Matricide Versus Patricide|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law|date=September 2007|volume=35|issue=3|pages=306–312|pmid=17872550|url=http://www.jaapl.org/content/35/3/306.full|access-date=2 July 2015|archive-date=16 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016134324/http://www.jaapl.org/content/35/3/306.full|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=West>{{cite journal|last1=West|first1=Sara G.|title=An Overview of Filicide|journal=Psychiatry|date=Feb 2007|volume=4|issue=2|pages=48–57|pmid=20805899|pmc=2922347}}</ref> and young, indigent mothers with a history of [[domestic abuse]] are slightly more likely to commit filicide.<ref name="West" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Friedman|first1=SH|last2=Horwitz|first2=SM|last3=Resnick|first3=PJ|title=Child murder by mothers: a critical analysis of the current state of knowledge and a research agenda.|journal=American Journal of Psychiatry|date=Sep 2005|volume=162|issue=9|pages=1578–87|pmid=16135615|doi=10.1176/appi.ajp.162.9.1578}}</ref> Mothers are more likely to commit filicide than fathers when the child is 8 years old or younger.<ref>Greenfeld, Lawrence A., Snell, Tracy L. (1999-02-12, updated 2000-03-10). "Women Offenders". NCJ 175688. US Department of Justice</ref> Matricide is most frequently committed by adult sons.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Heide|first1=KM|title=Matricide and stepmatricide victims and offenders: an empirical analysis of U.S. arrest data.|journal=Behavioral Sciences & the Law|date=Mar 2013|volume=31|issue=2|pages=301–14|pmid=23558726|doi=10.1002/bsl.2056}}</ref>

In the United States in 2012, there were 130 matricides (0.4 per million people) and 383 filicides (1.2 per million), or 1.4 incidents per day.<ref>{{cite web|title=Crime in the United States: Murder Circumstances by Relationship, 2012|url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_10_murder_circumstances_by_relationship_2012.xls|publisher=U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=3 July 2015|archive-date=4 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704202449/https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_10_murder_circumstances_by_relationship_2012.xls|url-status=live}}</ref>