Infanticide is not necessarily just "babies", it the killing is any of one's children regardless of age and desire for their death.
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'''Infanticide''' is the practice of killing unwanted babies. People in some times and places have killed babies simply for not being the right sex. China has a population control policy which limits couples to one child;<ref>"The one-child policy, first adumbrated by Deng Xiaoping in a 1979 speech, was in place nationwide by 1981." [http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa75761.000/hfa75761_0.HTM] </ref>
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'''Infanticide''' is the practice of killing one's own child. People in some times and places have killed babies simply for not being the right sex. China had a controversial population control policy which limited couples to one child;<ref>"The one-child policy, first adumbrated by Deng Xiaoping in a 1979 speech, was in place nationwide by 1981." [http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa75761.000/hfa75761_0.HTM] </ref>
unauthorized pregnancies are forcibly aborted [http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-noonan081601.shtml]
unauthorized pregnancies are forcibly aborted [http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-noonan081601.shtml]