Infanticide
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Infanticide is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children, its main purpose be
Infanticidio by Mexican artist Antonio García Vega
Skeletal remains of children from a ritual sacrifice discovered at Tlatelolco, exhibited at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
Medea killing her sons, by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix (1862)
![Femme Russe abandonnant ses enfants à des loups ("Russian Woman Abandoning Her Children to the Wolves"). Charles-Michel Geoffroy [fr], 1845](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Russian_woman_throwing_her_baby_to_wolves_%28Geoffroy%2C_1845%29.JPG/500px-Russian_woman_throwing_her_baby_to_wolves_%28Geoffroy%2C_1845%29.JPG)
Femme Russe abandonnant ses enfants à des loups ("Russian Woman Abandoning Her Children to the Wolves"). Charles-Michel Geoffroy [fr], 1845
Neonaticide
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Neonaticide is the deliberate act of a parent murdering their own child during the first 24 hours of life. As a noun, the word "neonaticide" may also refer to anyone who practices or who has practiced
Infanticide
…but may persist elsewhere. Parental infanticide researchers have found that mothers are more likely to commit infanticide. In the special case of neonaticide (murder in the first 24 hours of life), mothers account for almost all the perpetrators. Fatherly cases of neonaticide are so rare that they are…
A roadside sign in rural Sichuan: "It is forbidden to discriminate against, abuse or abandon baby girls."