Could someone pass an image showing the percentage of infanticides committed by women?

MaleEducation1 · 2025-08-03T18:17:48+00:00

Edit: I've decided to add more studies and details regarding this on this post.

For the United States, it seems difficult to find since the FBI does not seem to keep track of infanticides separately. FBI has a report for Child Victimization 2019-2023 with the offender sex, but it clubs less than or equal to 8 years old in one.

The CDC via the National Vital Statistics Reports does keep data on infanticide, but it did not talk about the offenders in at all. The Child Maltreatment report of 2023 talks about child fatalities and the relationship of the perpetrators, but includes all ages from <1 to 17 clubbed together.

So we can only rely on studies to get an idea. I don't think any actual data is there.

1. Finland (1970-1994) - Vanamo et. al (2000);00408-4) Kauppi et. al (2010)

Neonaticide are almost always (~100%) done by the mothers. For filicides of infants, 73% are done by the mothers, 23% by the father, and 4% by the step-father.

2. South Africa - Abrahams et. al (2016)

Found mothers 100% of perpetrators for neonaticides.

Mothers were 74.4% [69.3,78.9] of the perpetrators for children under the age of 5.

Regarding infanticides (1-11 month): Mothers were 47.7% of offenders for boys and 50.2% for girls.

3. Canada (1961-2011) - Dawson (2015)

Women made up 59% of the accused perpetrators of filicides for infants (<12 months)

Men made up 58% of the accused perpetrators of filicides for those aged 1-4.

Amongst offenders, 13% of males were stepparents as compared to 1.88% of the females.

4. United States (1978-1985) - Kunz et. al (1996)

90% of offenders during the first week were mothers.

After first week until the teenage years (13-15), it is 50-50 between mother and father.

For ages 13-15, 63% of offenders are fathers, and at ages 16-18, 80% are fathers.

Medium_Art_4990 · 2025-08-04T17:33:58+00:00

There are more factors playing into that statistic than just "women like killing babies." It's the women giving birth to these babies that are being killed. It is more than likely that the mother was suffering post partum depression or some other form of trauma when taking her baby's life. You're choosing to be ignorant

musicnote22 · 2025-08-03T21:07:39+00:00

Cases of filicide by mothers and fathers often differ in a variety of ways, as shown by this study and other research," said Dawson, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice and heads U of G's Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence.

Among her findings were the following:

More males than females were accused nationwide, a difference that appears to be increasing. Female accused were more common among people under 18, and males dominated in older age groups. Women made up four out of five accused who were single and never married, and men represented two-thirds of accused who were divorced, separated or widowed. More men than women were accused when revenge or jealousy was the motive. Most accused were biological parents. When stepchildren were killed, nine of 10 accused were stepfathers. While numbers remain small, the proportion of accused who were step-parents, and particularly stepfathers, appears to be increasing. Since 1991, more reports of family violence have occurred before filicides. Fathers are more likely than mothers to commit suicide after killing a child, although the likelihood of either parent committing suicide has decreased in recent years.

RTX2122 · 2025-08-03T23:46:47+00:00

Considering its illegal, its going to be extremly rare, at least in the U.S. i don't see why you'd need these statistics though, why the fuck would you need something like that? sounds like another ploy to be misogynistic tbh

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