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               Introduction to Psychology                                   Why kids kill parents                                   BY     Kathleen M. Heide               Psychology Today Magazine          HOW A LEGACY OF CHILD ABUSE LEADS TO HOMICIDE                              I chose this article because I have always been astonished at how children can do this to their                                     parents and what drove them to the choices they made.                               Did they have any other choices or did      they use totally of their chooses up that they had? This article supplied a lot of answers to me.                                   According to this Article                                   Between 1977 and 1986, more than 300 parents were killed each year by their own children.      &n bsp                &nb... ...ot his father once, he was then          afraid his father would be okay and come after him again when he was well, so he shot him again to make                          surely his father would not be able to do that. To end with a quote from the article                               "          The true killer in these cases is child mistreatment."                    "Damage comes not only in human carnage but in the death of the human               & nbsp          spirit that persistent           abuse often carries out."