Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife" and -cide, from caedere meaning "to cut, to kill") is the killing of one's own wife. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. It can also be used in the context of the killing of one's own girlfriend. The killing of a husband is called mariticide.
Mariticide (from Latin maritus "husband" + -cide, from caedere "to cut, to kill") literally means the killing of one's own husband. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out.
[Medieval Latin uxoricidium, from Latin uxor wife + -i- + -cidium -cide] : murder of a wife by her husband.
Abstract. A hitherto unremarked peculiarity of homicide in the United States is that women kill their husbands almost as often as the reverse. For every 100 US. men who kill their wives, about 75 women kill their husbands; this spousal “sex ratio of killing” (SROK) is more than twice that in other Western nations.
1 Uxoricide (Latin uxor mean 'wife' and cide from caedere mean 'to cut/ kill') is murder of wife or romantic partner, whereas mariticide is murder of husband and both refer to the act or perpetrator.
par·ri·cide ˈpar-ə-ˌsīd. : a person who murders his or her mother or father or sometimes a close relative. : the act of a parricide.
It is one of the most challenging and damaging emotional events in life. It can be debilitating and feel like emotional murder. We present a case of mariticide in which wife betrayed her husband and murdered him with the help of his friends due to her extramarital affairs with husband's friends.
For male victims of domestic homicide, 37% (10) were killed by an intimate partner. In 2019–20, the rate of domestic homicides was 0.32 per 100,000 – the second lowest annual rate (2017–18 and 2018–19 both 0.30 per 100,000) since the collection began in 1989–90 (Serpell et al. 2022).
Femicide is prevalent in the U.S.
To put that into perspective, on a global scale, the U.S. ranks 34th for intentional female homicides at a rate of 2.6 killings per 100,000 women. Moreover, in the US, almost three women are killed by an intimate partner every day.
Origin of sororicide
1. C17: from Latin sorōricīda one who murders his sister, from soror sister + caedere to slay.
David Brom murdered his sister with an ax, alongside his brother, mother, and father in 1988. Canadian serial killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo raped, then killed Karla's sister Tammy Homolka in 1990; allegedly, the killing was accidental. Martin Peyerl killed his sister Daniela in the Bad Reichenhall Shootings.
matricide. noun. ma·tri·cide ˈma-trə-ˌsīd ˈmā- : murder of a mother by her child. : one that murders his or her mother.
Some instances of uxoricide are facilitated by the culture of the victim and the perpetrator. For example, honor killings, whereby a man kills his wife because she has brought shame upon their family, are approved in some male-dominated, patriarchal societies.
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Parricide or patricide, in its proper meaning, is a homicide committed by someone against the persons of his father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, or other ancestors.
Rage, disrespect, and emotional stonewalling may not be relationship-ending in and of themselves, but continuing patterns can wear people down. An inability or unwillingness to respect your partner's thoughts, beliefs, and feelings can destroy the trust and intimacy in any relationship.
And that is that women initiate divorce more often than men on average. Numerous studies have shown this. In fact, nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women.
Physical abuse
Often the most visible form of DFV, physical abuse can involve direct assaults on the body, including use of weapons, driving dangerously, destruction of property, abusing pets in front of family members and forced sleep deprivation.
New South Wales had the most murders with 85, followed by Victoria with 66.
Shows that New Zealand has the highest rate of reported intimate partner violence in the developed world.
regicide. noun. reg·i·cide ˈrej-ə-ˌsīd. : a person who kills or helps to kill a king. : the killing of a king.
1 : one that murders or kills his or her own brother or sister or an individual (as a countryman) having a relationship like that of a brother or sister. 2 : the act of a fratricide.
Fatal maltreatment filicide may occur as a result of child abuse, neglect, or Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Parents committing spouse revenge filicides kill children in a specific attempt to make the spouse suffer. Furthermore, filicide may occur within the context of familicide, the extermination of the entire family.