When you seed violence you harvest violence

adolescent parricide
Abstract
Violence is a considered to be a behavior that is seen and
copied, the family being the primary place where children learn
about this. Family violence is a social phenomenon which is
recognized to be present in countries all over the world. One of
the most extreme forms of domestic violence is parricide- the
murder of parents (one or both) committed by children.
Sometimes it is triggered by severe mental disorder or desire to
act as savior, protecting other family members from violence.
Usually, children have history of prolonged physical, emotional
and/or sexual abuse from one of the parents or siblings- so
inside family. Although parricide is a rare event, its impacts can
affect the entire family.
The authors of this paper performed a review of the telltale signs
and typologies from the literature, and they also present the case
of a 12-year-old boy who killed his father by applying him
multiple blows with a metal bar. The father was considered a
violent person by the society, being often seen beating his wife
and sons. The day the boy committed the crime, he had suffer a
psychological trauma, being witness to how his father killed his
siblings and threaten to kill him as well.
After committing the crime, the boy called for the police and
confessed the murder. A complex forensic psychiatric
examination revealed that the boy had good marks at school,
being known as a good student, and there was no history of
mental illness. It was concluded that the child suffered an acute
stress reaction in the context of repeated psychological and
emotional abuse inside the family- from his father and mother,
and that his judgment was impaired at the moment he committed
the crime.
This case shows that family violence breeds violence and
highlights the necessity of effective efforts to prevent and
combat it.