• 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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    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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    discovered large cases of infanticide in Pakistani cities. This was led by the Edhi Foundation and Chhipa Welfare Foundation. The infanticide was mainly almost...
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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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  • 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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  • Female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries. Poverty, the dowry system, births to unmarried women, deformed infants, famine, lack of...
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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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  • resources. Some demographers question whether sex-selective abortion or infanticide claims are accurate, because underreporting of female births may also...
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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...
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  • 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...
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    Infanticide is the termination of a neonate after it has been born, and in zoology this is often the termination or consumption of newborn animals by...
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    species are known to destroy eggs guarded by males (ovicide, a form of infanticide), which secures care for their future offspring. It appears that a "counterstrategy"...
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  • Early infanticidal childrearing is a term used in the study of psychohistory that refers to infanticide in paleolithic, pre-historical, and historical...
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    genetic. Nevertheless, widespread infanticide during periods of war indicates Hamiltonian elements as well. Infanticide is a biologically spiteful action...
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    China Sex-selective abortion Female infanticide in China Lee 1981, p. 164. Lee, Bernice J. (1981). "Female Infanticide in China". Historical Reflections...
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  • infanticide is mentioned in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry. Some interpret the Quran as supporting the historicity of the practice of female infanticide in...
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    Mary Morgan (c. 1788 – 15 April 1805) was a young servant in Presteigne, Radnorshire, Wales, who was convicted and hanged for killing her newborn child...
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  • female infanticide. The colonial authorities also found that both in rural North and West India, the castes which practised female infanticide were propertied...
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    violence against women, murder (dowry deaths, honor killings), female infanticide, sexual crimes (rape, modesty related violence, human trafficking, forced...
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  • The Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870, also Act VIII of 1870 was a legislative act passed in British India, to prevent murder of female infants...
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    infanticide was a rare or a widely practiced event." There is no agreement about the actual estimates of the frequency of newborn female infanticide in...
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  • abusive parental care, child neglect, and a multitude of other reasons. Infanticide is the intentional killing of infants and young children. This practice...
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  • Infanticide in 19th-century New Zealand was difficult to assess, especially for newborn indigenous Māori infants. Resultantly, many New Zealand women...
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  • Suicide, infanticide, and self-mutilation by slaves in the United States was documented, although it remains an understudied aspect of slavery in the...
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  • prison on eight counts of infanticide. Dominique and Pierre-Marie Cottrez are also the parents of two adult daughters. Infanticide Véronique Courjault Celine...
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    eventually saw twins as of great importance there was still evidence of twin infanticide in various Yoruba communities. According to T. J. H. Chappel, the acceptance...
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  • serious category of culpable homicide, the others being manslaughter and infanticide. To commit homicide is to cause by any means, directly or indirectly...
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  • origin of the Rajput community resulted in hypergamy as well as female infanticide that was common in Hindu Rajput clans. Scholars refer to this as "Rajputisation"...
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