Why do mothers kill? Death of child, 7, forces Indonesia to ask an uncomfortable question

• Kanti Utami, accused of slitting her children’s throats with a box cutter, told police her husband was out of work and she didn’t want them to ‘struggle in life’
• Experts say maternal filicide is driven by factors from mental illness and a history of domestic violence to economic pressures and even a misplaced sense of altruism