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 such as China, India and Pakistan...

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...

discovered large cases of infanticide in Pakistani cities. This was led by the Edhi Foundation and Chhipa Welfare Foundation. The infanticide was mainly almost...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

China Sex-selective abortion Female infanticide in China Lee 1981, p. 164. Lee, Bernice J. (1981). "Female Infanticide in China". Historical Reflections...

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...

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...

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

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

of scholarly debate concerning the prevalence of infanticide, more specifically female infanticide in pre-Islamic Arabia. The pre-Islamic era, known...

Female infanticide in Pakistan had been a common practice. But it is no longer a common practice due to steps taken by local polices and Governments and...

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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"...

female infanticide. The colonial authorities also found that both in rural North and West India, the castes which practised female infanticide were propertied...

Mary Morgan (1788 – 15 April 1805) was a young servant in Presteigne, Radnorshire, Wales, who was convicted and hanged for killing her newborn child. While...

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...

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"...

serious category of culpable homicide, the others being manslaughter and infanticide. To commit homicide is to cause by any means, directly or indirectly...

genetic modification and debates surrounding childbirth, abortion, and infanticide. Speaking with Fangoria, director Mohan recited a story wherein his family...

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...

cryptic female choice and sexually selected infanticide. The hypothesis of sexually selected infanticide is a female counterstrategy that can directly...

violence against women, murder (dowry deaths, honor killings), female infanticide, sexual crimes (rape, modesty related violence, human trafficking, forces...

witches in the past, to the more recent widespread custom of female infanticide in many societies, to the killing of women for 'honor,' we realize that...

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...