Index

Martha Smithey (Texas Tech University, USA)

The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide

ISBN: 978-1-78754-208-2, eISBN: 978-1-78743-327-4

Publication date: 6 December 2018

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Smithey, M. (2018), "Index", The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 119-123. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-327-420181009

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INDEX

Abortion
, 29, 30

Affordable daycare
, 96

American culture
, 41

Asphyxia
, 8

Assault
, 89–90

fatal injury, mother
, 89–90

Autopsies
, 8, 9, 79

“Bad” mothering
, 33, 64, 99, 100

Cerebral hemorrhage
, 7

Child abuse
, 7, 24, 35, 36, 75, 83, 99

theories
, 10

Childcare, intensification of
, 16

Childcare subsidies
, 18

Child development techniques
, 100

Child homicide
, 12, 16, 17, 92

Child-rearing, stress of
, 4

Child-rearing experts
, 69

Child-rearing industry
, 14, 37, 40–43

Children, violence toward
, 4

Child support
, 18

Child violence, social
, 96

Cognitive ability
, 79

Colicky infants
, 59

Confused contradictory schemas
, 13

Cooperative community process
, 70

Core mother identity
, 52

Corporal punishment
, 93

Counter-productive parenting practices
, 34

Criminal homicide
, 57

Criminalization
, 99

Criminal justice system
, 37, 44, 47

Criminological theories
, 20

Crying acoustics
, 59

Crying baby
, 47, 52, 55–75

emotion work
, 70–75

inability to escape and
, 77–90

infant’s actions, interpreting
, 57–66

initial action
, 57–59

mother becomes forceful, restore order
, 62–65

mother identity, challenge to
, 67–70

mother’s interpretation, baby’s previous move
, 59–62

noncompliance
, 65–66

poor quality of life
, 77–81

power over baby
, 62

power over self
, 63

power to change
, 64

suffering mothers and
, 77–81

Cultural inequality
, 13, 77

mothering, devaluing of
, 38–40

mothering ideology and
, 37–53

women
, 36

Cultural inequity
, 89

Cultural schizophrenia
, 31

Cycle of violence
, 23, 24

Decision-making power
, 81

Demoralization
, 50–53

Desertion
, 19

Desperation
, 77

Dichotomies
, 10

Discourse
, 50

Divorce
, 22

Domestic labor
, 18

Dual-parent families
, 85

Ecology of crime
, 56

Economic deprivation
, 16

Economic equality
, 95

Economic hardship
, 4

Economic inequality
, 16

and insufficient resources
, 16–22

of women
, 16, 85

Economic resources
, 19, 41, 84

deprivation of
, 20

lack of
, 78

Economic success
, 18

Emotional entrapment
, 83

Emotional stress
, 19, 27, 28

Emotion work
, 79, 83

reflexive monitoring/reflective intelligence
, 70–75

Encephalitic infant
, 59

Exasperation
, 77

“Expert-driven” media
, 71

Extreme Emotional Disorder
, 50

Family support
, 96

social isolation and
, 32–36

Family violence
, 4, 10, 13

intimate partner abuse and
, 23–28

Fatal injury
, 55, 83

Fatalistic suicide
, 2

Fatigue
, 72, 81

Female infanticide
, 1

See also Infanticide

Female infants
, 1

Female offending
, 16

Filicide
, 10, 68

Free will
, 21

Gendered socialization
, 74

Gender inequality
, 16

Gendering of parenting
, 41

Gender socialization
, 37, 90

Gender-socialized identity
, 55

Good mothering
, 3, 4, 14, 36, 37, 42, 44, 47, 60, 62, 68

middle-class standard
, 43–44

requirements of
, 40

social construction of
, 4

Guttmacher Institute report
, 28

Homicide

adult vs. child
, 16

stages of
, 56

Homicide victims
, 12

autopsies
, 8

Hormonal imbalances
, 12

Identity norms
, 45

Ideology, enforcing
, 47–50

Impression management
, 71

Inability to escape
, 83–84

asking for help, humiliation
, 85–87

social isolation
, 84–85

Inconsolable baby
, 68

Infant homicides
, 5, 8, 9

Infanticidal mothers
, 15

Infanticide

cause of
, 8

maternal love
, 2–9

mental illness
, 9–12

overview of
, 1–14

perpetrators of
, 23

situated context of
, 55–75

victims’ ages, distribution
, 5

Institutionalized behavior, power
, 44–47

Instrumental violence
, 11, 81

Insufficient resources
, 16–22

Intense conflict
, 26

Intensive interview guide
, 101–108

Intensive mothering
, 40–42

middle-class ideology of
, 43

Interpersonal relationship
, 73

Intervention efforts
, 13

Intimate partner abuse
, 23–28

Intimate partnership
, 16

Intimate partner victimization
, 48

Intimate partner violence
, 4

See also Intimate partner abuse

Lethal violence
, 81

Likelihood of lethal injury
, 32

Male-perpetrated infanticide
, 6

Maternal attachment
, 39

Maternal infanticide
, 87

predispositional factors in
, 15–36

See also Infanticide; specific Infanticides

Maternal love

instinctual/cultural
, 2–4

trends
, 5–9

Maternal responsibility
, 47

Mental health care
, 98

Mental illness
, 1, 2, 9–12

Mental institution
, 50

Method of caregiving
, 52

Mommy-tracking
, 18, 38

Mother-bashing
, 93, 94

Mother-blaming
, 11

Mother–child interactions
, 16

Motherhood
, 11, 17, 31, 42, 43, 47, 94

cultural contradictions of
, 80

ideology of
, 48

Mother identity
, 66

challenge to
, 67–70

institutionalized behavior, power of
, 44–47

Mother–infant interactions
, 64

Mother–infant transaction
, 56

Mothering

cultural expectations of
, 38

inequalities of
, 4

stock of knowledge
, 41

strain of
, 46

Mothering ideology
, 14, 42, 55, 62, 74, 80

cultural inequality and
, 37–53

Mother-perpetrated infanticide
, 2

Mothers

assault by
, 89–90

force to gain compliance
, 87–89

identity
, 57

inability to escape
, 83–84

social isolation
, 84–85

substance use and abuse
, 82–83

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
, 25

National Crime Victims Survey
, 25

Nonlethal child abuse
, 7

Nonlethal violence
, 4

One-child policy
, 1

Paid labor force
, 38

Paid labor market
, 18, 19

Parenting, anomic state of
, 51

Parenting patterns
, 45

Pay gap
, 17

Pew Research Center (2016)
, 17

Physical violence
, 24, 26

Physiological vulnerability, infant
, 66

Planned pregnancy
, 32, 35

Poor or absent mothering
, 37, 63

criminalization of
, 47–50

Poor parenting
, 98

Postnatal onset
, 80

Post-partum depression
, 12

Post-partum environments
, 53

Post-partum hormone fluctuations
, 2

Poverty
, 4, 16, 19, 22, 34, 45, 80, 95

Powerlessness
, 14, 34, 47, 65, 81

Practical consciousness
, 41

Predispositional factors
, 15–36, 73

Preparedness, lack of
, 31

Primary prevention

ability to escape
, 95–97

families and resources, expectations meet
, 95

family planning, support for
, 92

hitting children, social nonacceptance of
, 92–93

mothering expectations, change
, 93–94

reality of child rearing, teaching
, 92

restructure secondary prevention
, 98–100

social change and
, 91–100

social support to families
, 98–100

stop romanticizing
, 92

Primary socialization
, 40

Psychosis
, 12

Psychosocial stress
, 33

Rage
, 90

Reaffirming face
, 88

Reality of mothering
, 41

Reality of parenting
, 28–32

Reflective intelligence
, 70–75

Reflexive monitoring
, 70–75

Role identity model
, 45

Secondary socialization
, 40, 51

Self-feeding situation
, 69

Self-feelings
, 61

Self-fulfilling prophecy
, 49

Self-image
, 40

Self-psychology perspective
, 63

Self-referent behavior
, 61

Social change
, 91–100

Social constructionism
, 55

Social forces
, 1, 4

Social identity
, 46

Social institutions
, 46, 47, 64, 96

Social isolation
, 32–36, 84–85

Socialization
, 36, 44, 45, 73

Social learning
, 16

Social self
, 46

Social services
, 44

Social service support groups
, 96

Social services workers
, 75

Social space, for marriage
, 39

Social support
, 88

Social support networks
, 84

Social workers
, 49

Societal coercion
, 36

Societal expectations
, 37

Spanking
, 93

State regulation
, 50

Status-degradation ceremonies
, 49

Stay-at-home mothers
, 22

Stereotypes
, 18

Stock of knowledge
, 71

guardians of
, 40–43

Stress, power of
, 42

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
, 8, 9

Suffering mothers
, 77–81

Suicide
, 4

Symbolic interactionism
, 55

Tipping point, emotion
, 58

Traditional psychotherapy
, 11

Unemployment
, 11

Unpaid labor
, 18

Unsupportive fathers
, 28

Unwanted childbearing
, 29

Unwanted pregnancy
, 28–32

Violence
, 21, 36, 39

parental modeling
, 24

social learning model of
, 23

victimization
, 16, 26

Wanted baby
, 32

Women. See also Mothers

cultural inequality
, 36

economic inequality of
, 16, 85

job security for
, 38

Working mothers
, 18