children crime (parent)
What about the mentally ill child? How can a mentally ill child be held responsible for parricide if they are not in their right mind and don’t know what they are doing? It is said that Lizzie Borden, if she did indeed kill her parents, did so while suffering from petit mal epileptic seizures. These children may not be held legally responsible for their actions, so to speak, but they can be institutionalized or hospitalized for the rest of their lives as they are deemed mentally unfit to stand trial or be held responsible for their actions. Then there is the antisocial child. One who kills their parents because they are not allowed to drive the car or cannot access their trust funds until the parent is dead. This is the most dangerous type as they have no regard for human life and are only concerned with how they can benefit from something like parricide. They are also the type that the media loves to write about and sell their mediums with, case in point, the Menendez brothers. Lyle and Erik Menendez spent many, many months in the news and are household names today because of it. A Psychology Today report states that parricide is almost a daily event and in fact, between 1977 and 1986 more than three hundred parents were killed by their children every year. The report also stated that this typical killer is a white 
male between the ages of 12 and 17.
What about the mentally ill child? How can a mentally ill child be held responsible for parricide if they are not in their right mind and don’t know what they are doing? It is said that Lizzie Borden, if she did indeed kill her parents, did so while suffering from petit mal epileptic seizures. These children may not be held legally responsible for their actions, so to speak, but they can be institutionalized or hospitalized for the rest of their lives as they are deemed mentally unfit to stand trial or be held responsible for their actions. Then there is the antisocial child. One who kills their parents because they are not allowed to drive the car or cannot access their trust funds until the parent is dead. This is the most dangerous type as they have no regard for human life and are only concerned with how they can benefit from something like parricide. They are also the type that the media loves to write about and sell their mediums with, case in point, the Menendez brothers. Lyle and Erik Menendez spent many, many months in the news and are household names today because of it. A Psychology Today report states that parricide is almost a daily event and in fact, between 1977 and 1986 more than three hundred parents were killed by their children every year. The report also stated that this typical killer is a white 
male between the ages of 12 and 17. 
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