They very often look like monsters or mad women.
For six years, sociologist Julie Ancian investigated these mothers who committed neonaticide, a homicide committed on an infant less than 1 day old.
His book,
Les Violences inaudibles
(1), evokes his meetings with five of them, found guilty of the murder of their newborn.
It raises a fundamental question: how can a mother kill her babies?
The survey is the first to get these women talking.
“These mothers are so stigmatized that they don't allow themselves to speak up to tell how they got there,” comments Julie Ancian.
Through interviews, but also conversations with justice professionals and an analysis of archives, the sociologist deconstructs the myth of the ruthless mother in the grip of madness.
In her book, she discusses the factors that led to these tragedies: poverty, domestic violence, or even a difficult...
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