Thank you for the link, Kimster.
I have done extensive research on this for decades.
In my humble opinion the motives are changing. There has been a shift in the motives we often see. That article was written in 2009. I cant count the cases I have read here and elsewhere since that time concerning juveniles who murdered a parent(s) or another family member.
I remember reading 5 cases in just one short week. These child killers were from 10 to 13 years old. Only around 10 children that age had murdered in the past two decades or so but now I seem to read about it way too often and it isn't that unusual anymore to see a very young juvenile committing premeditated murder.
Imo, it is extremely rare for an abused child to murder their abuser and most children who kill aren't mentally ill by judicial standards.
So imo the majority of juvenile killers I have read about in the last couple of years would fall into the category of a child with some type of conduct disorder, which is just another terminology given to a minor for being fledgling psychopaths, since they aren't diagnosed until the age of 18 as being a full blown psychopath.
To me the experts misconstrue the facts. Often what happens to the juvenile who murders one of their parents are both have their records expunged or the juvenile record of the outcome is sealed. If they are convicted on a lesser charge then it doesn't get recorded by the DOJ as a murder when that is exactly what it was.
I see it no different than when the so called experts and the media puts out erroneous information when they say it is rare for a mother to murder her own ..when the truth is they are just as guilty of doing it as often as the father. 61% of children who are murdered ....are murdered by one of their own biological parents. 31% of the time it is the father....30% of the time it is the mother. Yet if we listened only to experts and the media we would never know that that they both are running neck and neck.
So I have little faith about the information society is given by experts who continue to want to put out myths.
I have always felt if websites such as this one kept one thread for children who murder their parents or other family members it would show that it really isn't as rare as the experts try to pretend it is. And the motives many times are known. No mental illness. No abuse. Just in a murderous rage because they either had to do something they didn't want to do or wanted to do something that the parents didn't approve of.....or they didn't get their way about something.
IMO
