Difference between revisions of "Infanticide"

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Infanticide is the practice of killing one's own child. It occurs in cultures in which male children are strongly favoured over female for social or economic reasons, particually when the number children per family is restricted by either limited resources or artificial population control such as that enforced in China.

In recent times, infanticide is becoming less common as improving access to ultrasound scanning and abortion facilities allows for increased ease of sex-selective abortion.

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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>
+'''Infanticide''' is the practice of killing one's own child. It occurs in cultures in which male children are strongly favoured over female for social or economic reasons, particually when the number children per family is restricted by either limited resources or artificial [[population control]] such as that enforced in China.
-unauthorized pregnancies are forcibly aborted. <ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-noonan081601.shtml</ref>
+In recent times, infanticide is becoming less common as improving access to ultrasound scanning and abortion facilities allows for increased ease of sex-selective abortion.
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