What Makes Serial Killers Tick? - Childhood Abuse - Crime Library on truTV.com - 0 views
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In some cases, the abuse of children by their parents is barbaric, and it seems little wonder that anything but a fledgling serial killer would come from such horrible squalor.
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Childhood abuse may not be the sole excuse for serial killers, but it is an undeniable factor in many of their backgrounds.
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In looking to the parents for explanations, we see both horrifying mothers and fathers. The blame usually falls on the mother, who has been described as too domineering or too distant, too sexually active or too repressed. Perhaps the mother is blamed more because the father has often disappeared, therefore "unaccountable." When the father is implicated, it is usually for sadistic disciplinarian tactics, alcoholic rants, and overt anger toward women.
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