An act committed when a female, considered disturbed from the effects of giving birth, causes the death of her newborn child (under one year of age).
Practice of killing an infant. In pre-Islamic times a common practice in Arabia of ridding the family of unwanted female children.
The practice of killing an unwanted or defective infant, used in the first and second century to limit the number of girls. Unfortunately, it is still practiced today in some cultures.
(in·FAN·ti·CIDE). Intentional abandonment or murder of infants one year or age or younger.
a person who murders an infant
Killing infants. Found in some uni-male species where a successful male rival kills nursing babies so females come into estrus sooner.
The killing of young by the parent or sibling.
Killing an infant. E.g., among Hanuman langurs, infanticide typically occurs after male "takeovers."
The killing of a baby after it is born.
the practice of killing a newborn child.
Murder of an infant soon after its birth.
the willful destruction of newborn children. (p. 667)
The killing of a child under one year of age by a woman suffering from postpartum depression.
In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally causing the death of an infant of a given species, by members of the same species - often by the mother. More recently in criminology, it includes various forms of non-maternal child murder. See for instance Moors Murders and Gilles de Rais.
