matricide
Noun
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The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
One who murders one's own mother.
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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Modernity invented the future, but that's all over. In the current version 'progressive history' camouflages phylogenetic death-drive tactics, Kali-wave: logistically accelerating condensation of virtual species extinction. Welcome to the matricide laboratory.
Although Orestes’ actions were what Apollo had commanded him to do, Orestes has still committed matricide, a grave sacrilege.
He is known for many executions, including that of his mother, References to Nero's matricide appear in the Sibylline Oracles 5.490–520, Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales The Monk's Tale and William Shakespeare 's Hamlet 3.ii.
However, 84% of the time, it was an adult who committed the matricide or patricide, not a child.
That question is a hard one to answer because there are no national data that record family composition of matricide victims.