MOM YOU TOO! CASE REPORTS OF DYADIC DEATHS WITH MOTHER AS PERPETRATOR.

When a phenomenon of homicide-suicide occurs involving mother as perpetrator, many questions arises and need attention, many facts need consideration and many circumstances need evaluation. The anecdotal Indian literature has described homicide-suicides episodes involving male as a perpetrator but only few reports with mother as assailant had been published. The present case reports are being reported with an attempt to evaluate these episodes so that preventive measures could be initiated or adopted. In the present report, in every case, homicide was followed by suicide of the perpetrator. All the perpetrators were mother and the victims were their children in the age group of 18 months to 6 year. All homicide-suicide episodes took place in urban area. Homicide-suicide episodes are complex phenomenon and multidimensional events associated with the additive or multiplicative effects of many circumstances including psychopathological, psychosocial, economical, cultural or environmental stressors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]