Infanticide

Mary Anne Warren- Infanticide In history, with the exception of people not wanting children of Spartans and others along with certain genders, infanticide has almost always been looked down upon. The rights of a human are always greater than that of an animal, even though they might be “potential persons”. Relating to that, I argue in this essay that Mary Anne Warren does not defend her 2nd infanticide argument (“merely potential persons do not have a moral right to become actual-or none that is strong enough to override the fundamental moral rights of actual persons”) adequately through her reply, I will do so by analyzing potential persons, infants, and persons to argue against infanticide. Warren’s reply to why infanticide is allowed is…

The objective of this assessment is to identify a social problem in the international context, determine the people affected, possible causes of the problem and who may benefit. After the assessment of the problem, a plan for advocacy can be designed to address the issue. As an international social worker, working for a non-government agency, my organization would address female infanticide, specifically in India. Infanticide and feticide encompasses the murder of newborn children or sex…

Another one of the more serious factors happens to be sex ratios. The ratios have been affected due to the previous one child policy, which served as a form of family planning. This has become a real problem whereas, due to the policies, families would choose to have a male rather than a female to fulfill the quota. Female infanticide is evident in China. “Women are missing in their millions-aborted, killed, neglected to death” (“Gendercide”). Also, some couples fail to report female selective…

the belief that males are superior to females because they provide stability for old parents, work and play a crucial role in the performance of rites. The thought that women do not inspire stability is based on a traditional practice. They leave their families to go live with their husband’s, and thus their parents have no one to look after them. Males are seen as income-earners since they almost always receive higher wages for the same work than women and perform more work in the thriving…

The act of neonaticide has been going on for hundreds and thousands of years throughout different regions and cultures. Neonaticide is defined as the killing of a child during the first twenty-four hours of life. Both Jan Hoffman the author of “An Infant’s Death and Ancient Debate” and Steven Pinker the author of “Why They Kill Their Newborns” discuss why mothers are able to kill their newborns and how this type of infanticide has been going on for hundreds of years in many different places and…

data it was then split into different social classes. As the records clearly displayed the parent’s profession, this was a simple task. A variety of classes were studied so the effects that famines and crises could be calculated across society in Marmande. It was also possible to track the upper classes as well. In order to distinguish a member of the upper classes, the priests used a number of status-specific job-titles. They used a variety of titles, from the common “sieur” or “demoiselle”,…

In China there has been a steady increase in the number of “missing women” Qian states that “an estimated 48.4 percent of the population in China and India are female”1. Most of the missing women in the world are in India and China where it is stated there is an estimated deficit of close to seventy million women. The sex imbalance has been documented in richer Asian countries like Taiwan and South Korea. The increase of sex imbalance in these countries has been attributed to neglect of the…

China’s government enforced financial punishments with heavy fines to make sure citizens obeyed the law in place. Not only were there financial punishments, but also, women were forced to have sterilizations, abortions and even participate in infanticide. Daily abortions occurred, about 35,000 abortions every day. while the one-child policy was instated (Gendercide 1). Most of these abortions were female fetuses, because of the desire to have a boy child. “Son preference” was prevalent in China…

Andrea left Mary floating in the tub. After discovering what had happened to his younger siblings the eldest, Noah managed to escape his mother for a few moments. Eventually, Noah Yates became a victim just like his younger siblings” (p. 3). West and Lichtenstein (2005) say, “Killing one’s children are defined in three different ways. Filicide is done children between the ages of one and their parents kill eighteen. Neonaticide is done when a parent kills his or her child within 24 hours of…

hard when the number of women decreased substantially. Surveys were taken of married and non-married men in China. Results were that never married men had higher depression scores, higher aggression scores, and more thoughts of suicide than married men, (Forgotten Females). The negative effects of the policy were grave. This proves to show that the correlation between the country’s one child policy and the increase in the male gender population was too strong to ignore; one would see it…