Taking an objective and diagnostic approach, Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill examines the crime of child homicide from all angles including historical, cultural, psychological, and legal. Expanding on the original, published as Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infanticide, and Filicide, this edition details child homicide in its many forms, such as shaken baby syndrome and Munchausen-by-Proxy, as well as the differing circumstances involved in infanticide and filicide. Unlike many books on the subject, it highlights the behavior of the father (deemed responsible in roughly 75 percent of these cases), whether he is aggressive, complicit, or merely absent, and his ultimate culpability under the law.