aise much suspicion. There should be suspicion, however, when several apparently healthy babies die in one family. Another sign of possible foul play is seen in repeated bids for medical attention for the children before they die. These children may have a long medical record of being brought barely breathing to hospitals by the parent who says they have a history of turning blue and losing consciousness. According to Dr. Michael Baden, director of the forensic sciences unit of the New York State police, "This isn't the pattern for SIDS, where babies have no serious prior problems and are suddenly dead in their cribs."
Some psychologists consider the issue of infanticide and child-killing as only one manifestation of violence in the family group. They note that homicide within the family has been a theme of great psychological significance, one seen not only in psychology but in literature and mythology. Freud's "Oedipal theory" made the urge to kill one's father a normal element of the male psyche, and Bloch mainta
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