Mothers are dying at the hands of sons - but warnings of violence are being missed

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Sons were suspects in the deaths of one in five women last year.

Karen Ingala Smith, co-founder of the Femicide Census, said matricide remains one of the most overlooked forms of male violence against women.

Her organisation’s data includes 220 women killed by their sons, or where a son is the suspect, alongside 29 grandmothers killed by grandsons and four stepmothers, from a dataset of 2,347 women.

“If we look over the last 15 or 16 years, comparing the women killed by sons to women killed by strangers, it’s almost exactly the same number,” she said.

“And we’re only looking at women with adult sons - and not every woman has an adult son. So, the proportionality of risk is shocking.”

Ingala Smith said mothers can be left living in fear long before a death occurs.

“For every woman killed, there are hundreds, if not thousands, living in misery that don’t end up dead,” she said.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/sons-killing-mothers-warnings-of-violence-missed-5Hjdg5L_2/

There have been some frightening threads on here from desperate women seeking help with their abusive sons. And as the article highlights, sometimes these are children who are slipping through the net with their abuse going unaddressed by anyone.

Is the data further sorted by sons who kill their Mothers when there is no male partner for the Mother and or the son has been diagnosed as ND or having a MH issue?

I think you are right to draw attention to this.
But it is a part of the general pattern of violence against women.
I was reading this article this morning
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0jjndg9pxo
The chilling thing is the poor woman called the police on 2 occasions prior to this assault when her ex partner entered her home unlawfully armed with a baseball bat and the police just marked these as a domestic.
Women aren't safe in their own homes from male violence. That's the bottom line.

There have been other threads about this, and I suspect which I didn't check last night, that this story which deserves to be heard, is based on the most recent Femicide Census.

And from memory (and other threads) it is clear that women who have sons who have been diagnosed with various issues have contributed heart breaking stories about the violence they have had to cope with, with little or no support.

I think the link of violence towards mother is more incel than anything else, including mothers being sexually abused by sons.

NB this is IMO! Because of the number of cases in the US and at least one in the UK where sons have shot their mother before going on to commit targetted murder in schools etc..

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5403475-latest-femicide-census-published

the deaths of 43 elderly women killed by a man since 2020 – nearly a third of cases – the suspect was their son or grandson.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5554981-more-than-100-elderly-women-killed-by-men-since-2020

Gutting but unsurprising