child's survival and development to the greatest extent possible. Suicide after the murder of a child is in fact the most extreme form of child abuse. Children are not the property of their parents, and no one's life can become a property of another. It is noteworthy that Korean society considers filicide-suicide as “family suicide,” indicating that the children are regarded as property of their parents. In particular, ‘filicide-suicide’ should be approached as an incident requiring measures to prevent child abuse, rather than approaching it as an ‘inevitable decision of the family as a whole.’ To this end, the police, relevant ministries, and the media need to revise guidelines related to briefings or case management procedures to clarify that filicide-suicide is child abuse. Moreover, it can be a socially important signal for the government to include ‘filicide-suicide’ as an indicator in key statistics on child abuse and conduct a systematic investigation on the related situation. On the other hand, it is also important to come up with measures to prevent incidents in advance, such as finding families in crisis in advance. The number of family members making extreme choices was highest during the 1997-1998 financial crisis. Suicides occur more frequently when faced with an economic downturn, as the number of families in crisis increases from business failures and depression, etc. Developed countries deal with this issue by strategically cooperating between the public sector, private sector and local communities. The Lethality Assessment Program (LAP) adopted in the US identifies victims who are at high risk of being murdered, and provides counseling services by connecting with domestic violence counseling agencies. Moreover, Domestic Violence High-Risk Team (DVHRT) composed of experts from protection groups, police, prosecutors, and corrections is performs identification, investigation and review of high-risk groups. y, investigate, and review high-risk groups. The Korean government also needs to establish a public system so that families in crisis can be detected early and actively intervened, even for low-income families or those who are not recipients of the national basic livelihood security. It will be important to raise the level of social trust that “the society is raising children together” by setting standards to start social services for the families in crisis, including psychological counseling and treatment, based on child abuse occurrence factors rather than income standards. 124