Almost 1-in-10 mothers murdered in the UK in the last 15yrs are killed by their sons

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/05/you-took-the-life-of-someone-who-had-given-you-life-the-women-killed-by-their-sons

This is horrific.

It's horrific isn't it? But actually not surprising as women are almost always killed within relationships of some kind. Men are dangerous. Men are stronger. Yet so many people are happy to blame women (mums) for mens (sons) behaviour. When often they were the one person facing it out, standing by and trying to help.
Even on here last night some poor woman said her son was threatening her and some victim blaming twerp asked how she had provoked him.

I should be interested to see in how many of these murders both parents were killed.

The murder of parents by their children is a very complex matter and each case is, I would argue, unique.

I do not think the subject is as straightforward as this somewhat simplistic article makes out.

Well half of these cases were psychosis

completely agree. It's such a complex issue. Better mental heath services especially for psychosis etc would be a start.

None of the 10 examples included the death of the father in the incident that killed the mother.

There is clearly an issue around families (mothers in these cases) who are being left to try to deal with severe mental health and/or addiction issues with very little or no support at all. That must be addressed, urgently.

I posted as I've seen a number of threads from women who are frightened being attacked by their sons or who are already being abused and don't know what to do.

but isn't that the point? this 'simplistic' article focuses on women killed by their sons, you could argue each case is unique
another one could focus on DV, surely each relationship is unique
another one on women killed by ex-partners
another one on children killed by their fathers
another one killed by a stranger experiencing psychosis on the streets

but there's one shared commonality - the overall point is the overwhelming number of murders of women, by men, (usually by men they know) and rarely, rarely, hardly ever, the other way round.