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 practice or who have practiced this. Neonaticide are relatively rare in developed countries, but most of these murders remain secret: ...every year, hundreds of women commit neonaticide: they kill their newborns or let them die. Most neonaticides remain undiscovered, but every once in a while a janitor follows a trail of blood to a tiny body in a trash bin, or a woman faints and doctors find the remains of a placenta inside her. - Steven Pinker, New York Times, 1997 Parental infanticide after the first 24 hours is slightly more commonly committed by fathers than mothers but vice versa for neonaticide. 90% of neonaticidal mothers are 25 years of age or younger. Less than 20% are married. Less than 30% are seen as psychotic or depressed. They have typically denied and/or concealed the pregnancy since conception. The United ...

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In the late 19th century, the issue of infanticide captured the attention of a significant number of journalists, psychiatric and medical writers and social commentators. The act of intentionally killing an infant within 24 hours of its birth was by no means new to this period. Yet changing socio-cultural and economic circumstances, combined with shifting perceptions of murder and deviant female behaviour, ensured that infanticide gradually evolved into a publicly prominent concern. While the history of infanticide has been assessed in various national contexts, analyses of this form of murder in Ireland have surfaced only sporadically; Cliona Rattigans recent study of early 20th-century Ireland being an exception.(1) Elaine Farrells A Most Diabolical Deed: Infanticide and Irish Society, 1850-1900 offers the first comprehensive account of how infanticide was performed, perceived, responded to and legally managed in late 19th-century Ireland. Farrell draws upon an impressive range of case ...

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Many philosophers have grappled with the issue of whether or not abortion and infanticide carry the same moral implications, discussing what constitutes the right to life. Joseph Fletcher, founder of situational ethics and a euthanasia proponent, proposed that infanticide be permitted in cases of severe birth defects. He considered infanticide, in certain cases, a logical extension of abortion.. Peter Singer, an Australian humanist and philosopher, holds that the right to physical integrity is grounded in a beings ability to suffer, and the right to life is grounded in-among other things-the ability to plan and anticipate ones future. Since the unborn, infants, and severely disabled people lack the latter (but not the former) ability, he states that abortion, painless infanticide, and euthanasia can be justified in certain special circumstances, for instance a severely disabled infant whose life would cause suffering both to himself and to his parents.. Michael Tooley, author of the ...

Killing conspecific infants (infanticide) is among the most puzzling phenomena in nature. Stable polymorphism in such behaviour could be maintained by negative frequency-dependent selection (benefit of rare types). However, it is currently unknown whether there is genetic polymorphism in infanticidal behaviour or whether infanticide may have any fitness advantages when rare. Here we show genetic polymorphism in non-parental infanticide. Our novel invasion experiment confirms negative frequency-dependent selection in wild bank vole populations, where resource benefits allow an infanticidal strategy to invade a population of non-infanticidal individuals. The results show that infanticidal behaviour is highly heritable with genetic correlation across the sexes. Thus, a positive correlative response in male behaviour is expected when selection operates on females only and vice versa. Our results, on one hand, demonstrate potential benefits of infanticide, and on the other, they open a new ...

Investigations by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, as well as the states human rights office commissioner, produced no evidence that the women had been convicted for abortions. However, pro-abortion forces have continued to insist that all seven women imprisoned for murder in reason of parentage, the legal term in Mexico for infanticide, are innocent of the charge.. Among those to be released is María Araceli Camargo, 26, convicted of infanticide after giving birth to her child and leaving it to die in a rural latrine. According to the La Jornada newspaper, Camargo claimed that she thought she had diarrhea, but instead gave birth to an infant 53 centimeters in length, an average size for a newborn, while in the latrine.. La Jornada reports that Camargo cut the umbilical cord and left her baby, then went to her family claiming that she felt unwell. Doctors at the hospital where she was taken immediately recognized that she had given birth, and alerted prosecutors, who ...

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Family units usually consisted of three children. Brough Smyth, a 19th century researcher, estimated that in Victoria about 30% of the births resulted in infanticide.[48] Mildred Dickeman concurs that that figure is accurate in other Australia tribes as a result of a surplus of the birthrate.[61] Cannibalism was observed in Victoria at the beginning of the 20th century. The Wotjo tribe, as well as the tribes of the lower Murray River, sometimes killed a newborn to feed an older sibling.[62] Thomas Robert Malthus wrote that, in the New South Wales region, when the mother died sucking infants were buried alive with her.[63] In the Darling River region, infanticide was practiced by a blow on the back of the head, by strangling with a rope, or chocking with sand.[64] In Queensland a tribal woman could have children after the age of thirty. Otherwise babies would be killed.[65] The Australian Aranda tribes in the Northern Territory used the method of choking the newborn with coal, sand or kill her ...

Pro-life supporters have recently been protesting at the home of a St. Louis Doctor who practices infanticide which is commonly incorrectly referred to as abortion. These mass murderers of those not yet born are David Eisenberg and Erin King who are married and both doctors. It is by Christians interposing themselves in the place of unborn children and decrying these evil tyrants and the rulers that support them that infanticide will be stopped.. ...

Paternal care and infanticide by males lie at opposite ends of a continuum of male behaviour towards infants. Hypotheses to explain the evolution of paternal care include enhanced offspring survival, male reproductive strategy to guarantee future mating opportunities or to reduce sperm competition. These hypotheses make different predictions in relation to the conditions that favoured the evolution of paternal care, such as certainty of paternity, mating system, ability of males to monopolize receptive females, presence of alternative strategies to secure paternity or simply the lack of alternative mating opportunities. Likewise, infanticide by males is supposed to enhance the likelihood of paternity of infanticidal males and its occurrence is predicted when females have relatively long lactation, are polyestrous, reproduce aseasonally, and can be monopolized ...

Punishing Infanticide in the Irish Free State , Irish Journal of Legal Studies: The court records show that a notable aspect of sentencing practice in these Irish infanticide cases is the use of non-penal religious institutions, mostly convents, as an alternative to traditional custody ...

Parity progression and choice of contraceptive method are increasingly associated with the sex composition of children. Many respondents wanted at least two sons, though most also wanted at least one daughter. Analyses suggest that the prevalence of modern contraceptive use among parous women would have been 19% higher in 2012-2013 in the absence of son preference. Permanent method use was extremely low among women with no sons and increased significantly with number of sons. The association between number of sons and use of temporary methods was weaker, while son preference had little relationship with traditional method use.. ...

Introduction Reproductive intentions and behaviour in many developing countries are strongly influenced by the sex of the offspring (1 6). Empirical evidence from the analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from 57 countries by Arnold (7) shows that son preference remains particularly strong in South Asian countries. Apart from Bangladesh, Pakistan has the second highest ratio of preference for sons over daughters; and among the women who expressed a preference for the sex of their next child, sons were preferred to daughters by nearly ten to one. However, analysis of cross-sectional survey data such as the World Fertility Survey (WFS) and the more recent DHS is made difficult by the lack of information on reported gender preference and subsequent reproductive behaviour at the level of the individual. Only three longitudinal studies of reproductive intentions and subsequent fertility behaviour in South Asia have been carried out: one in India by Vlassoff (8) and two others in ...

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In order to test the hypothesis that infanticidal tendencies are suppressed when rats become mothers, very young newborn pups, either naturally born or cesarean-delivered, were presented to virgin females and to newly delivered mothers. Provided that the pups were lively, uncleaned of fetal fluids or membranes, and presented without placentas, nearly all virgins killed and nearly all mothers did not. Newborns were also presented to Day 22 pregnant rats and to rats whose pregnancies had recently been surgically terminated. Large proportions of both groups either were nonkillers or were actively maternally responsive (and a smaller proportion were both) despite the fact that none of these rats had undergone parturition or cared for pups. These results indicate that, independent of its effect on maternal caretaking, pregnancy suppresses infanticide in previously infanticidal nulliparae even before they become mothers. Hence, infants are protected from their own parents. In addition, evidence was ...

My eyes have seen it, and I still cant believe it. I read multiple news reports and thought I was trapped in some sort of alternate universe. However, it did happen, and no, I was not in an alternate universe. On February 25, 2018 the United States Senate voted down a bill that would protect babies who were born as a result of a botched abortion. Pamela Murray, who is a Senator from Washington, said she did so because it was not her job to get between a woman and her doctor. There is just one problem with this line of thinking. The child is outside of the womb. By voting against this bill the Senate has essentially endorsed infanticide. This is an event that I feared would come, but prayed that I would never see it.. This bill is heartless, callous, and goes against all senses of morality. Life begins at conception. This is something proven by science. Even if one doesnt believe that, there is no doubt that the child born breathing after a botched abortion is very much alive. We have entered ...

Obviously there are non-religious reasons for defining human life as human, if one wishes to rely on erring human reason rather than on inerrant divine commandment. But it is interesting to note that Mr Briggs does not mention or even allude to religion anywhere in his critique: he merely points out lapses of logic.. Interesting, because this commenter, rallying to the flag of the infanticides, immediately points his barrage against the Church, as if she were the main, or the only, enemy or obstacle to the Culture of Death.. This gives away the whole game, the motives, the final causes.. The pro-death camp, or, excuse me, the pro-choosing-death-for-babies camp are attempting to defend, promote, and (with ideas such as this) expand the right of the strong to betray and kill the weak for their own comfort and convenience. In each case they use necessity, what Milton called the tyrants plea to excuse the crime, specifically that it is necessary for the innocent baby to die so that society will ...

Newt Gingrich was wrong when he accused the elite media of failing to ask Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign about his votes in favor of infanticide. In fact, there were reams of mainstream media reports about Obamas votes as an Illinois state senator on the born alive legislation to which Gingrich refers ...

Typically, it is the newcomer males who kill infants in a group. Infanticide usually happens in species where males leave their natal groups (the ones they were born in). At maturity they leave to form their own group or join an existing one. By killing babies, the new males bring the nursing females back into estrus sooner so they are able to impregnate them and sire their own offspring right away rather than waiting the 3-4 years it would take for the females to wean their babies sired by the previous male and become fertile again ...

Newt Gingrich deflected a question about Obamas recent decision mandating that employers insurance plans cover contraception by pointing out that Obama voted in favor of a law that protected abortion providers during his term as state senator of Illinois. You did not once during the 2008 campaign ask why Barack Obama voted in favor of legalizing infanticide, Gingrich said. If were going to debate about who is the extremist on this issues, it is President Obama, who, as a state senator, voted to protect doctors who killed babies.. ...

After the D.C. company newspaper, the Washington Post, accused Judge Roy Moore, a trained lawyer and assistant district attorney, of sexually harassing 14-year-old jail bait almost 40 years ago virtually the entire D.C. establishment, led by Senator Mitch McConnell and other GOP swamp creatures, immediately denounced the judge and thereby supported his opponent, Doug Jones. Like almost all D.C. Democrats, the communistic Mr. Jones supports the policy of infanticide, which the D.C. establishment deceivingly calls partial-birth abortion. This article in The American Thinker points out some of the illogic, inconsistencies, and absurdities of this latest D.C. swamp witch hunt.. ...

Obamas Infanticide Votes By Patrick Brennan February 29, 2012 4:00 A.M. Then-Senator Barack Obama in March 2008 In last Wednesdays debate, when the Republican candidates were asked about their positions on birth control, Newt Gingrich parried with one of his usual tactics, a fusillade against the mainstream media. He told CNNs John King,…

Female mammals appear to evolve promiscuity as a defence against infanticide by dominant males, and this in turn swells the males testicles

Although cases of female foeticide, infanticide and sex-selective abortion are not common in Africa, couples desiring sons have been known to adopt the billings method to ensure the conception of sons.. The roots causes of son preference among African families include he social roles ascribed to men and to women. Sons are preferred in order to perpetuate the family name while a girl loses her identity with marriage. Even in societies where girls retain their fathers names in marriage, son preference is still the norm. The responsibility for the care of aging parents often falls to sons who also perform their parents burial rites. Thus not having a son is a source of vulnerability for parents while having daughters only is a social stigma. The effects of son preference ripple into other spheres such as nutrition and education. In the traditional African homes sons would be given better food than daughters and are more likely to be enrolled in schools and encouraged to finish. When funds are ...

I now, however, think that the pro-life view of abortion -- that it is murder from the very moment at which a sperm cell joins with an egg cell to form a zygote -- puts very little stock in fetal sentience, except perhaps as a vehicle for reaching the wider audience of people who reject the view that killing a zygote is murder but do feel that later, pain-capable abortions raise serious and potentially dispositive moral questions. This would help explain, for example, their arguments offered for the PBABA saying that an intact dilation and evacuation abortion is too much like infanticide to countenance. For someone who adheres to a pro-life view of abortion, terminating the life of an eight-cell, undifferentiated embryo is just as much like infanticide, for moral purposes, as aborting a late-term fetus through an intact delivery followed by the crushing of the fetuss skull. The whole argument that a particular kind of abortion is too much like infanticide assumes as its premise the idea ...

I have two problems with this approach.. First, the idea that the abortion question will be decided by research is very naive. For example, consider the two scholars Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, who recently wrote an article in the distinguished Journal of Medical Ethics entitled, After Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live? In this article, these scholars argue that parents should be allowed to kill their child, not only in the second trimester, but even after birth.. Now what is the problem here? Do Giubilini and Minerva simply need to do more research? Would reading a textbook on fetal development make them pro-life? Probably not. The abortion question cannot be resolved so easily. The facts of fetal development are widely published and well-known, and yet the debate rages on, even in academia.. But what if Giubilini or Minerva was standing with a scalpel in hand, looking down on an unwanted infant squirming on the table? Would these scholars have the heart to put their ...

The abortion debate was rocked by a recent article by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva in the Journal of Medical Ethics. It argued that infanticide should be permitted by law for the same reason that abortion is permitted, which is to say that a foetus and a newborn baby are not human persons with rights. Giubilini and Minerva argue…. ...

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I do agree (mostly) with Singer. I agree that the term pro choice should really be pro abortion with regards to people like myself who want abortion to be an option. And I am in favor of parents (versus doctors, the state, other authorities) being allowed to make the best decision for their infant in situations where a severe (and I stress severe) medical/developmental condition is diagnosed. I realize as I write this though that probably some parents would not make decisions I would necessarily agree/be comfortable with (i.e., I would certainly hope no parent would terminate a pregnancy or euthanize an infant with down syndrome in order to avoid dealing with a special needs person). So, I will have to re-read Singer to give a better synopsis of what I agree/dont agree with ...

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I dont know exactly how I feel about limits and I can see how there can be some issues with that. However, arguments about its so rare dont hold for me. So is infanticide, but it happens. To me there is a difference between infanticide and terminating a pregnancy at, say, 39 weeks - but it is not as different as terminating at 12 weeks to me. At some point, I think the rights of the fetus do come into question. Maybe that is exactly at birth when it is no longer a fetus and an actual baby and no longer inside the mothers body, but I am not 100% sure on that. Looking back onto my own pregnancy and birth, it made me stronger in the pro-choice category. Being pregnant was something I really wanted, but I was having trouble wrapping my head around how horrible it would be to be pregnant when you didnt want to be and not have a choice. At the same time, I dont think I should have been allowed to terminate a healthy fetus at 39 weeks. I wouldnt have been able to anyway, I gave birth before 37 ...

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In many cultures, female children have often been seen as unwanted burdens to the extent that they have been murdered by their parents while still babies.