Taking another person's life is always a tragic event, but things get even darker when it's a family member, especially a person's own child. Supposedly, parent-child love should deter such murders from happening, but sadly love is not always enough. For one reason or another, parents have been killing their own kids since the dawn of civilization, and will likely continue to do so.
In this gallery, we bring you some of the most infamous cases of parents who killed their own children, from antiquity to the present day. Click on to learn all about them.