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Cheryl Goodenough

Filicide study finds action needed to keep kids safe

Parents kill a child with 'alarming frequency' in Australia with about 20 cases recorded every year. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

The myth that parents kill their children in random acts of violence has been dismissed by groundbreaking research, highlighting the need for a whole-of-society response.

Filicide - or the killing of one's child - is the second most common type of domestic homicide, after deaths involving an intimate partner.

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