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Infanticide
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Infanticide Most societies agree that the drive to protect and nurture one's infant is a basic human trait. Yet infanticide — the killing of an infant at the hands of a...societies, both ancient and contemporary, have practiced infanticide. Based upon both historical and contemporary data, as...
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infanticide
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of the parent, family, or community. Infanticide often occurs among peoples whose food...the Chinese and the Eskimo). Female infanticide was common in some traditional patriarchal...members of society, unlike victims of infanticide, who were devalued. Christianity, like...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...been explained, at various times, as infanticide, overlaying (accidental suffocation...nineteenth century, the frequency of infanticide was a matter of growing concern. In...involved infants. Disraeli said that infanticide was "hardly less prevalent in England...
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Baby Farming
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...farming was just a form of commercial infanticide, that the infants in the care of baby...baby farmers as a means of committing infanticide indirectly, with the promise of infant...a relatively easy and well-paid job. Infanticide was very difficult to prove, particularly...
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Koop, Charles Everett
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...on controversial health issues such as smoking, abortion, infanticide, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Koop was...Hospital influenced his strong positions against abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia. While at Children's Hospital, Koop wrote...
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Abandonment
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...including ancient and medieval Europe, infanticide was an important means of population...implying that abandonment was tantamount to infanticide. This view was challenged in 1988 by...abandonment should not be conflated with infanticide, whatever its death toll, is supported...
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cot death
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...x2018;Infants found dead in bed’. At that time infanticide was common and accounted for over 80% of all coroner...of murder in England and Wales. Disraeli said that infanticide was ‘hardly less prevalent in England than on...
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Foundlings
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...large-scale abandonment of newborn babies features prominently in the history of Western Europe. Although sometimes confounded with infanticide, abandonment frequently occurred with the hope that someone would find and rear the child. In many cases, these abandoned...
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killing
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...also subject to termination through infanticide. Socially and legally reprehensible in many cultures today, infanticide was widely practised for eugenic...x2018;mercy killing’). Like infanticide, euthanasia was practised in Greek...
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Violence Against Children
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...sodomy, forced sex, battering, physical beating, labor exploitation, child prostitution, abandonment, adult bullying, or even infanticide. Prior to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there was no defined concept of childhood vulnerability or childhood innocence...
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