ABSTRACT:Research on suicide in latency age children is reviewed and case histories of two 9‐year‐old children who suicided by shooting themselves and one 7‐year‐old who died by self‐poisoning are presented. Similarities in environmental and family histories, and in personality variables among these three cases have suggested underlying mechanisms in development and maintenance of symbiotically shared self‐concept between parent and child which may be useful in helping to identify similar cases and in assessing potential for suicidal and self‐destructive behavior in latency