Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that...

Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of newborn female children. Female infanticide is prevalent in several nations around the world. It has been...

In animals, infanticide involves the intentional killing of young offspring by a mature animal of the same species. Animal infanticide is studied in zoology...

Female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries. Poverty, the dowry system, births to unmarried women, deformed infants, famine, lack of...

Infanticide in non-human primates occurs when an individual kills its own or another individual's dependent young. Five hypotheses have been proposed...

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...

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...

Manish Jha. The film examines the impact of female feticide and female infanticide on the gender balance and consequently the stability and attitudes of...

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...

Early infanticidal childrearing is a term used in the study of psychohistory that refers to infanticide in Paleolithic, pre-historical, and historical...

female-selective abortion. Sex-selective abortion is closely linked to female infanticide, and is recognized by many human rights organizations as an act of violence...

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...

resources. Some demographers question whether sex-selective abortion or infanticide claims are accurate, because underreporting of female births may also...

Suicide, infanticide, and self-mutilation by slaves in the United States was documented, although it remains an understudied aspect of slavery in the...

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...

Occasionally, infanticide is mentioned in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry but when it is, it does not explicitly mention female infanticide, rather general...

include acts such as domestic abuse, sexual assault, murder, female infanticide, and acid throwing. According to the report of National Crime Report...

genetic. Nevertheless, widespread infanticide during periods of war indicates Hamiltonian elements as well. Infanticide is a biologically spiteful action...

Female infanticide has long been a common practice in Pakistan due to a number of cultural factors. Official statistics show the rate of infant mortality...

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...

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"...

– 23 August 1849) was the last British woman to be executed for the infanticide of her own child. She was convicted of killing her infant son Richard...

female infanticide from the late Qing period through the Republican era. Zhang provides detailed accounts of legal prohibitions against infanticide—particularly...

as sex-selective abortions, while other cultures use gender-selective infanticide and geronticide to perform femicide. Until recently, femicide was not...

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...

The Infanticide Act (Swedish: Barnamordsplakatet), often referred to as "Infanticide act of Gustav III" (Gustav III:s barnamordsplakat) after its instigator...

Infanticide in 19th-century New Zealand was difficult to assess, especially for newborn indigenous Māori infants. Resultantly, many New Zealand women...

and Janagaraj in supporting roles. It is set in a village where female infanticide is prevalent and encouraged, but the title character is against the practice...

the killing of one's child Fratricide, the killing of one's brother Infanticide, the killing of an infant Mariticide, the killing of one's husband Nepoticide...

rough with, injuring, biting, attacking, crushing and killing (maternal infanticide) of the offspring. While savaging behaviour has been seen in multiple...