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| | Infanticide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The end of the practice of infanticide in the western world coincided with the rise of Christianity as a major religion. | | | In some cases, infanticide may have been practiced to eliminate children with birth defects or whose circumstances of birth were deemed unfavorable for religious reasons. | | | There have been some accusations that infanticide occurs in China due to the one-child policy although most demographers do not believe that the practice is widespread. |
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| | Female infanticide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Female infanticide, the prevalent form of sex-selective infanticide is the systematic killing of girls at or soon after birth. | | | Later in ayat 8,9 of Sura At-Takwir female infanticide was prohibited: "And when the female (infant) buried alive (as the pagan Arabs used to do) shall be questioned:(8) For what sin she was killed? | | | Moreover, with the male descendant, family heirlooms and inherited wealth shall remain with the family. |
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| | Peacekeeper |
| | As with female genital mutilation and "honor" killings, the religion of Islam is often scapegoated as an ideological source of justification for female infanticide. | | | Female infanticide is the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and the low status accorded to women in many countries, most notably China and India, the two most populous countries on earth. | | | But, in fact, Islam prohibits killing of female infants, recognizing this act as murder and a sin. |
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http://www.iamapeacekeeper.com/advocacy/2.7infanticide.html
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| | History of Infanticide |
| | Mohammed outlined the wrongfulness of infanticide in various sections of his holy scripture. | | | Despite the clear theistic prohibitions against child-murder by the three major Western religions, female infanticide has been for centuries a prominent and socially acceptable event in two related areas of the world: India and China. | | | Darwin believed that infanticide, "especially of female infants," was the most important restraint on the proliferation of early man. |
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| | Gendercide Watch: Female Infanticide |
| | Infanticide is a crime overwhelmingly committed by women, both in the Third and First Worlds. | | | As already noted, female infanticide reflects the low status accorded to women in many societies around the world. | | | argued in 1993 that "underreporting of female births, an increase in prenatal sex identification by ultrasound and other diagnostic methods for the illegal purpose of gender-specific birth control, and [only] very low-level incidence of female infanticide are the causes of the increase in the reported sex ratio at birth in China." (Zeng et al. |
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http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html
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| | Vedic Obliteration of Girls : Origins of Female Infanticide in India. Women in Indo-Aryan Societies, Chapter 1 |
| | Infanticide was one such method which helped preserve Brahminist power, and the population was hence brainwashed with the `holy' Vedas, which prescribe this beastly practice. | | | The inhuman Hindu female infanticide is not due to any `corruption', but is fully sanctioned by the core of Hindu religious scriptures - the Vedas. | | | The cumulative number of deaths due to centuries of Hindu female infanticide is truly staggering. |
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| | Rh151: Female Infanticide in Tamil Nadu, India |
| | Female infanticide in Tamil Nadu in this century was first highlighted in the national media in 1985 by the leading newsmagazine India Today [16] which reported the existence of the practice in Usilampatti, Madurai district, southern Tamil Nadu. | | | Female, infanticide was primarily prevalent among Kallars, the dominant caste of this area. | | | Virtually the entire excess of female deaths in the six villages occurred during the early neo-natal period (first seven days of life), when female infanticide is most commonly carried out. |
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| | Youth Advocate Program International |
| | For this reason, female infanticide is especially prevalent in rural areas and among lower castes. | | | The United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) estimates as many as 5,000 females are being killed each year as a result of honor killings.[10] Honor killing occurs most frequently in Muslim countries, although neither Islamic religion nor law sanctions the practice. | | | It is a centuries-old cultural practice found in many countries among people following various religions and beliefs, but is most prevalent in Africa. |
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| | Rediff On The NeT Special: A Special Report on female infanticide |
| | On why the practice of female infanticide is confined to certain pockets alone, the professor said there was a strong tendency among these groups to emulate the dominant caste group of that area -- who invariably paid hefty dowries and conducted marriages in an ostentatious way. | | | After the first report, people attributed the practice of female infanticide to a particular caste group called Piramalai Kallars. | | | It took no time for people to come to a conclusion that female infanticide crossed borders and castes. |
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| | Infanticide in Norway rats |
| | Most of the males (4 out of 6) were infanticidal after the birth of the pups. | | | In rats, however, females have a "postpartum estrus." The timing of this estrus depends on both the time of day and the time elapsed since the birth. | | | (1971, 1974) found that 56.7% to 79.5% of males killed strange newborns, compared with 9.8% of nulliparous females (females who had never given birth). |
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| | Rh325: Attitude Towards Female Foeticide: Does it Influence the Survival Status of Female Children?. |
| | In a nutshell, among the female children born to women who approve of female foeticide, only half of them survive compared to the female children born to women who disapprove of female foeticide. | | | Recently, a study by Kaur (1993) in a village of Chandigarh reveals that 95 per cent of women favoured female foeticide, since as quoted by one woman, "we are ashamed to have a female foetus". | | | Saundrapandiyan (1985) in the Usilampatti village of Tamil Nadu observed that, people are of the belief, "if we kill female babies immediately after their birth, the chance of having a male child son is very high". |
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| | Female Infanticide and Sexual Selection |
| | The 1449 Nurnberg census reveals a female surplus in both burgher and servant classes, resulting in a total sex ratio of 88:100, contrasting with 109 for the surrounding countryside (Russell 1958: 16-17). | | | "Evidence for preferential removal of females is strong enough to have convinced several demographers, and comes from all periods down to the eighteenth century. | | | For this reason males became socially more valuable than female, and both men and women collaborated in "removing" daughters in order to rear a maximum number of sons." (Harris, Marvin (1977) Cannibals and Kings. |
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| | For India's daughters, a dark birth day csmonitor.com |
| | In pockets of India where female infanticide persists, the practice is rooted in a complex mix of economic, social, and cultural factors. | | | Parents' preference for a boy derives from the widespread belief that a son lighting his parents' funeral pyre will ensure that their souls ascend to heaven; that he will be a provider in their later years (India has no form of social security); and that he will preserve the family inheritance. | | | A focus of their work: improving the standing and self-image of women themselves. |
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| | India Girls Still Face Sex-Selection Abortions, Female Infanticide |
| | The practice of female infanticide has a long history in India: Because of the widespread cultural preference for sons, many baby girls used to be killed after birth. | | | One study maps the increased frequency of female feticide with rising levels of education -- lowest among women with a fifth-grade education and highest among women with university degrees. | | | Assumed to be prevalent among Hindus, because of their custom requiring male progeny to perform cremation rites, female feticide is in fact found today to be equally rampant among Sikhs, Muslims and Christians. |
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| | Many Indians abort unwanted girls - The Washington Times: World Briefings - September 18, 2004 |
| | Female fetuscide is banned in Sikhism, yet this heinous form of sexual discrimination exists among the Sikhs." | | | Rajesh Gill, a professor of sociology at Punjab University said: "On this count, Muslims and Christians in the country follow their religion more strictly, and they are basically against the killing of any fetus or girl babies. | | | "The sex determination test is done secretly, and no report by the ultrasound center follows when the fetus is found to be female and bound for an abortion," said Dr. Shabbir Husain in Aligarh. |
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| | INFANTICIDE - LoveToKnow Article on INFANTICIDE |
| | Or infanticide may be in the nature of a religious observance. | | | 75 et seq.) suggests that the practice of female infanticide was once universal, and that in it is to be found the origin of exogamy. | | | The gods must be appeased with blood, and it is believed that no sacrifice can be so pleasing to them as the child of the worshipper. |
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: Women in China: Past and Present |
| | Statistics from Pakistan demonstrate the low priority given to female education: Only one-third of the country's schools -- which are sexually segregated -- are for women, and one-third of those have no building. | | | In South Asia and China, the perils begin at birth, with the threat of infanticide. | | | For female children, the survival odds are even worse. |
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| | Islamic Voice |
| | Islam not only prohibits female infanticide but also rebukes the thought of rejoicing on the news of birth of a male child and not rejoicing on the news of the birth of a female child. | | | However, after the spread of Islam in Arabia, Al hamdulillah, this evil practice has been discontinued for the last 1,400 years but unfortunately it is yet prevalent in India. | | | “When the female (infant), buried alive, is questioned, for what crime she was killed.” (17:31), (6:15) |
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| | The Rediff On The NeT Special: A Special Report on female infanticide |
| | I think we need to look at it multi-dimensionally; social empowerment, status of women and other issues. | | | The IMR of Tamil Nadu has not come down but has remained stable at around 53. | | | How do you tackle the social aspects involved in female infanticide? |
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| | CRUSADE AGAINST FEMALE INFANTICIDE |
| | Positive fall out of these efforts being there have been instances of girl children refusing to marry before the age of 18, children themselves taking initiatives in thwarting the attempts of female infanticide in their families. | | | It has witnessed that while these songs and dramas are portrayed in the villages, some women literally start crying identifying themselves with the situation in the drama. | | | AID strongly believes that community sensitisation and community realisation of the problem is very essential for elimination of the social issues such as female infanticide in the region.Further the future generation is to be geared up and their mental make up should be made positive towards the girl children. |
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| | IDN - IMA to combat female foeticide, infanticide |
| | The sex ratio in India has plummeted from 972 females per 1000 males in 1901 to 927 females per 1000 males in 1991. | | | As Dr.Kapadia warned if foeticide and infanticide went unchecked, it would permanently damage the female-male demographic balance leading to an increase in sexual crimes and encourage evils like polygamy. | | | The Indian Medical Association (IMA) is gearing up to combat the evil practice of female infanticide. |
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| | Abortion, Infanticide Foeticide India |
| | Abortion, Female Infanticide, Foeticide, Son preference in India. | | | In most countries in the world, there are approximately 105 female births for every 100 males. | | | The accepted reason for such a disparity is the practice of female infanticide in India, prompted by the existence of a dowry system which requires the family to pay out a great deal of money when a female child is married. |
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| | Govt sponsored project reduces female infanticide in villages |
| | This is reflected in the shocking gap in the sex ratio, which, in certain districts of Haryana, was as wide as 865 females per thousand males. | | | But the Haryana Government's "Apni beti, apna dhan" scheme introduced a new element into the lives of hapless women who gave birth to female child. | | | NEW DELHI, MARCH 15: In Haryana, six years after the `Apni beti, apna dhan' programme was launched, rural folks are slowly beginning to name their daughters after inspirational women and goddesses. |
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| | Voices of Youth - female infanticide in india |
| | The sick and evil people use culture or tradition as excuse to do wrong things to their female children. | | | and if the practice of dowry is allowed to continue, so shall female infanticide. | | | This is not the only reason, and in some of the states, the control of the land, and property have come out to be the other reasons for the female infanticide. |
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| | RISA-L Bibliography: Sridharasvamin |
| | May You be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India. | | | George, Sabu M. Female Infanticide in Tamil Nadu, India: From Recognition Back to Denial? | | | Death by Fire : Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in Modern India. |
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| | Feminist Daily News 10/30/2003: UNFPA Urges End to Female Infanticide in India |
| | UNFPA Urges End to Female Infanticide in India | | | Feminist Daily News 10/30/2003: UNFPA Urges End to Female Infanticide in India | | | The data notes a national decline from 945 to 927 in the number of girls per 1,000 boys ages 0-6 from 1991-2000. |
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| | SUNY Press :: Female Infanticide in India |
| | It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. | | | In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonial India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India, the authors closely examine the progressivist British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. | | | Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar is an independent scholar who has taught in India and the United States. |
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| | True Crimes: Infanticide |
| | Generally three principle causes are given: female infanticide, better food and health care for boys and maternal death at childbirth. | | | Female infanticide reflects the low status accorded to women in the world; it is the most brutal and destructive manifestation of the anti-female bias that pervades "patriarchal" societies. | | | Milner, author of the book Hardness of Heart/Hardness of Life, believes some people have a genetic predisposition for infanticide. |
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| | The Hindu : `Female infanticide declines' |
| | Reproductive and child health was given the focus along with reducing maternal mortality. | | | The number of reported cases of female infanticide was only seven in 2003 while it was 65 three years ago, as per Government statistics. | | | In 2000, there were 65 deaths owing to infanticide; in 2001, the figure came down to 48 and in 2002, the girl baby deaths were 16 and last year only seven cases were reported. |
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| | Aint No Way to Go: Burning Brides |
| | Amniocenteses, barred only in one state to determine an unborn child's sex, is followed in the rest of the country by female infanticide, women's groups say. | | | Female infanticide continues to be practiced, according to news reports — including in the family of a prominent Rajasthan politician where no girls have been born in forty years. | | | Female infanticide continues to be practiced; in the family of a prominent Rajasthan politician no |
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| | Cronaca: Female infanticide in India |
| | As a result, the sex ratio in the 0 to 6 age group in some northern areas (where the craze for boys is at its worst) is amazingly skewed: 793 females for every 1,000 boys. | | | In Punjab men who want to marry and raise families are growing desperate. | | | In some villages no girl has been born for years. |
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| | MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Gift of a Girl: Female Infanticide |
| | There is even the widespread belief that if a baby girl is gilled, then the next baby will be a boy. | | | In a country where being a woman means living a life of hardship, the murder of female infants may be seen by the mothers as being a humane solution. | | | "This powerful and moving film explores the complexity of female infanticide in southern India and shows steps that are being taken to eradicate the practice. |
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http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=6714
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| | ‘Infantile’ corporators turn female |
| | Winter's over, but the early morning haze over Mumbai continues. | | | If female infanticide is as rife, there won’t be enough women around, so women will have two husbands. | | | Suchitra Naik of the Shiv Sena, who questioned the Corporation’s seriousness over the issue of female infanticide, initiated the debate. |
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| | AllRefer.com - infanticide, Custom & Artifact (Customs And Artifacts) - Encyclopedia |
| | Female infanticide was common in some traditional patriarchal societies. | | | Child sacrifice occurs in many traditional societies for religious reasons, but human sacrificial victims were generally appreciated members of society, unlike victims of infanticide, who were devalued. | | | In certain societies children who are deformed or are believed tainted by evil (e.g., twins) may be slain at birth. |
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| | Infanticide |
| | This is the most common form of infanticide among black-tails. | | | Black-tailed prairie dog males disperse from their natal coterie at the age of two years, when they reach sexual maturity. | | | The type of infanticide that has sparked the most interest is that of infanticidal lactating females who kill the young of fellow coterie members. |
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http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2002/vaala/Infanticide.htm
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| | BBC - Religion & Ethics - Abortion |
| | Female infanticide is more common than male infanticide, and in some countries, particularly India and China, is likely to have serious consequences on the balance of the sexes in the population. | | | (similar words like 'gynocide' and 'femicide' are used to describe the killing of females of any age). | | | Societies that practice female infanticide always show many other signs of bias against females. |
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| | V-Day: Female Infanticide |
| | Female infanticide is defined as the abortion of a fetus because it is female or the killing of an infant by a relative because it is female. | | | Anecdotal evidence suggests that outright infanticide, usually of newborn girls, takes place in some communities in Asia. | | | Infanticide has been practiced as a brutal method of family planning in societies where boy children are still valued, economically and socially, above girls. |
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| | African Lion Infanticide -- David Shelburne |
| | Infanticide is a common practice in most mammals. | | | Female lions have also been observed to kill cubs from a rival pride, but they would never kill cubs from their own pride. | | | A very good video depicting infanticide can be found at the following link – |
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http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2004/shelburne/infanticide.html
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| | Journal of Women's History: The savage family: colonialism and female infanticide in nineteenth-century India.@ ... |
| | It was also the culmination of local-level experiments that began in the... | | | The law gave provincial governments sweeping powers to intervene in what was increasingly seen as a major problem in Indian society: the apparent killing of female infants by members of their own families. | | | Journal of Women's History: The savage family: colonialism and female infanticide in nineteenth-century India.@ HighBeam Research |
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| | CNN.com - Grim motives behind infant killings - Jul. 7, 2003 |
| | A Salem woman sits crushing grain as she tells CNN she has to live the rest of her life with the pain and guilt of knowing she murdered her own new born baby girl. | | | While infanticide has long been practiced, female foeticide is a relatively new phenomenon. | | | Social scientists say the severity of the problem of selective abortions is so bad, the country's gender birth ratio shows there are 880 females for every 1,000 males. |
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| | Eradicating female infanticide amongst the Lambada tribe |
| | The issues that have caused the practice of female infanticide amongst this tribe are low status of women in society, poverty, lack of education/training and lack of medical facilities. | | | During the project period all the female babies have been accepted by their parents; none of them was sold or killed. | | | It was thought necessary to also improve the livelihood of the Lambadas as the area is also drought prone and people live below the poverty level. |
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| | Supply and Demand: Is Female Infanticide Coming Home To Roost? |
| | Wey-yull, the female to male ratio in India has been dropping for years, from 972/1000 in 1910 to around 929/1000 today. | | | Supply and Demand: Is Female Infanticide Coming Home To Roost? | | | Sex determination of fetuses by amniocentesis has been around since about 1974, and, against the law, many have used it to pre-determine whether or not to abort. |
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| | ‘Female infanticide still prevalent in State’ - Deccan Herald |
| | The difference in literacy level between men and women is also a cause of concern. | | | He added that the Department of Women and Child development is taking several initiatives to improve the status of women. | | | He was speaking at the inauguration of Literacy Drive and Women’s Empowerment programme organised by the Adult Education Department, Bangalore University and Development Education Services (DEEDS), Mangalore here today. |
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| | Culture Shock: Infanticide in China |
| | the peasants in these areas, who were dependent on the land and the crops, did the only thing they could think of to survive under these conditions--they killed their female babies. | | | Since 1979, when the "One-Child Policy" was introduced by the Chinese government to control spiralling population growth (Couples are penalized by wage-cuts and reduced access to social services when children are born "outside the plan."), infanticide rates has rised dramatically. |
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| | feminism -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | As this happened, women in developed countries, especially intellectuals, were horrified to discover that women in some countries were required to wear veils in public or to endure forced marriage, female infanticide, widow burning, or clitoridectomy. | | | Hers was one of the first sustained arguments for female political, economic, and legal equality. | | | She also wrote about feminism and social problems. |
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| | female infanticide - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "female infanticide" is defined. | | | We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word female infanticide: |
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| | Relativism - religious doctrines, philosophies, and practices |
| | Obviously, the same principle means we shouldn't condemn slavery in America, genocide in Africa, or female infanticide in China. | | | In fact, we think that widow sacrifice is totally immoral.'' That may be what Westeners think, yet Ruse says it is wrong to judge suttee as a bad thing. |
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| | Scroll down to Section 5 for female infanticide. | | | International Policy and Research: the United States, the United Nations, and India's reports and policies on amniocentesis and female infanticide |
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