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Between 2006 and 2013 march, 381 parents were killed by their children in Republic of Korea. Parricide is about 5% of all homicides. We retrospectively studied 151 cases of parricide and investigated the association between schizophrenia and the characteristics of children of age, sex, materials and seasons. Present study is an analysis of 163 patricide and 175 matricide. Parricides caused by parents’ mental illness accounted for 39.6 % of all cases. Differences and Similarities were found between cases of patricide and matricide. We also investigate that victims are children and the killers are their parents during the same period. And approximately 44.4 % of the perpetrators attempted suicide following the maternal filicide. However, young mothers with severe mental illness require careful monitoring by mental health support services.