Both Now and Earlier.
There's the aborting of unhealthy babies (runts) and, alas, post birth infanticide.
Infanticide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Comparative anthropologists have calculated that
50% of female newborn babies were killed by their parents during the Paleolithic era. Decapitated skeletons ...
Neonaticide - Infanticide (zoology) - Infanticide Act - Infanticide Act 1938
Female infanticide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of newborn female children or the....
Buddhist nunneries created "baby towers" for people to leave a child; it is ...
Americas - Europe - China - India
BBC - Ethics - Abortion: Female infanticide
http://www.debatepolitics.com/philo...ussions/www.bbc.co.uk/.../infanticide_1.shtml
British Broadcasting Corporation
Infanticide is the unlawful killing of very young children. It is found in both ...
Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of girl babies. It is also described as ...
A Deadly Preference For Male Offspring: The Killing Of Baby Girls...
www.ibtimes.com/deadly-preference-male-o...
International Business Times
by Palash R. Ghosh - Sep 16, 2013 -
South Asia's endless and brutal war against its female population took another ghastly turn last week
when a Pakistani man admitted to ...
Parents in India Kill 11 Girl Babies in Infanticides Hoping for a Boy...
Sep 22, 2013 - Parents in India Kill 11 Girl Babies in Infanticides Hoping for a Boy ...
“[that] raises global awareness concerning the loss of female lives in India, ...
History of Infanticide
History of Infanticide
Darwin believed that infanticide, "
especially of female infants," was the most important ....
killed their children, however, the victim was usually a newborn baby or ...
Gendercide Watch: Female Infanticide
Gendercide Watch: Female Infanticide
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Female infanticide is the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies
and from the low value associated with the birth of females.
Female Infanticide in India and China
Female Infanticide in India and China
Killing baby girls, or allowing them to starve to death, is something most of us cannot ...
Families in these cultures may decide to kill their female children either ...
India's Cradle Babies Program Hopes to End Female Infanticide...
http://www.debatepolitics.com/philo...oanews.com/...babies...female.../1802328.html
Voice of America
Dec 3, 2013 - She added that a lack of education, the low status of girls and widespread poverty
were the main factors why
girl babies were killed or dumped ...
"It's a Girl": The three Deadliest words in the world ...
blogs.independent.co.uk › Independent Blogs
The Independent
Jan 18, 2012 -
India and China are said to eliminate more female infants than the ...
in which unwanted female babies are aborted, killed or abandoned.
From the last link above:
"The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 million girls in the world today are ‘missing’.
India and China are said to Eliminate more Female infants than the number of girls Born in the US each year.