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Infanticide (or
infant homicide) is the
intentional killing of
infants or offspring.
Infanticide was a
widespread practice throughout human history that...
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Female infanticide is the
deliberate killing of
newborn female children.
Female infanticide is
prevalent in
several nations around the world. It has been...
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China has a
history of
female infanticide which spans 2,000 years. When
Christian missionaries arrived in
China in the late
sixteenth century, they witnessed...
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Female infanticide in
India has a
history spanning centuries. Poverty, the
dowry system,
births to
unmarried women,
deformed infants, famine, lack of...
- In animals,
infanticide involves the
intentional killing of
young offspring by a
mature animal of the same species.
Animal infanticide is
studied in zoology...
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Infanticide in non-human
primates occurs when an
individual kills its own or
another individual's
dependent young. Five
hypotheses have been proposed...
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Infanticide is the
killing of a
neonate after birth. In zoology, this
commonly refers to the
killing and in some
cases consumption of
newborn animals...
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mainly full-grown adults.
Infanticide is the
killing of a non-adult
animal by an
adult of the same species.
Infanticide is
often accompanied by cannibalism...
- The
Infanticide Act is the name of two 20th-century acts in
English law that
started treating the
killing of an
infant child by its
mother during the...
- female-selective abortion. ****-selective
abortion is
closely linked to
female infanticide, and is
recognized by many
human rights organizations as an act of violence...
