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Infanticide: Past and Present
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Infanticide, the deliberate killing of infants, was once and economic necessity and exists as a social atavism even today. This book explores the origins and motives of this behavior and is a contribution to the understanding of infanticide and, it is hoped, to its prevention.
The incidents of infanticide cited here indicate that the killers, invariably mothers or mother figures, were below the level of parental caring, i.e., underdeveloped. Such growth-stunting results from negative life ex...