Talk:Matricide

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Is there a term for the killing of one's spouse?

Doubtful. Marriage is a social construct, not a biological relation. It'd just be "Murder" or "Homocide". socalifornia 05:44, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Uxoricide is of one's wife.

[edit] Causes

I removed "Paranoid Schizophrenia" from the listings of motivations for matricide. This is unsubstantiated. Research on people with schizophrenia shows only a slight increase in violent behavior compared to the general population and even then it is confounded with other factors including substance abuse, physical abuse, poverty, and others. Bottom line is that the relationship between schizophrenia and violence is not clear. The relationship between matricide and schizophrenia has not been established at all.

A word of caution: as authors we need to be careful about representing the mentally ill. They are a community impacted heavily by stereotypes and sweeping generalizations that are often unfounded. The schizophrenia - violence relationship is an example of one such stereotype. The rare cases of it become media hype, which people then remember vividly. Violence by ordinary folks isn't as easily remembered and hence the stereotype is born. Tobycat 04:46, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Family Guy

Someone really needs to work Stewie into this article somehow. I wouldn't know how though =/ socalifornia 05:44, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] wtf

Roland of Gilead admits he is a matricide? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.251.5.170 (talk) 02:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)