Infanticide

“Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.” (Assata Shakur). The oppression of African people and the want for freedom that resulted in resistance was common ground for those who wanted to maintain their culture and sanity. Men, women, and children were dispersed to different corners of the world to cultivate fields and become “playthings” for slave owners and sellers. Though African slaves had common ground, with resistance, the methods to obtaining freedom depended greatly on…

India has a glorious history of drama from the ancient times. Drama begins its journey in India with the Sanskrit plays. Indian drama is characterized with the rituals, folks, cultural heritage etc. But the major concern of contemporary Indian drama is the representation of socio-political scenario, marginalization, gender discrimination, oppression, poverty and hunger. A general consensus seems to have emerged that though the social criticism, corruption, oppression, gender discrimination can…

her trial, Andrea was displayed as the only “monstrous mother” in our everyday society with more than 1500 articles written about her case (Hyman, 2004, p. 193). However, this is a misconception delivered by media because tales and incidents of infanticide run way back in history and myths like the stories of Medea and Malinche, famous…

Kaliyah Inswood Prof. Kipple ENGL 1202 12 November, 2015 One is the Loneliest Number: The Family Planning Policy in China (First Point) The adverse effects of the one child policy has not only devalued China’s economy, but women in general. Once a daughter marries, she becomes obligated to her husband’s family and is only expected to care for her husband’s parents, leaving her own without any support in their old age. The policy has made a very clear social statement to the citizens of China:…

against social and political institutions represented by his father’. I want to further Liu’s view through looking at Rowland’s view that this is a story of parental abuse and infanticide. Rowland points to the final lines of the poem and believes the ‘silence and strangeness of these lines points to the crime of infanticide’ () and that it ‘traces violence against one child from one generation to the next’ (). Paine’s essay helps to understand this further. Paine discusses…

Doctors of today have advanced tools and technology to look at an embryo and tell if it is healthy and ready for life. Many mothers experience complication in pregnancy that can lead to a child being born with disabilities. As stated in JUSTIFYING INFANTICIDE AND NON-VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA By Peter Singer, infants can be born with “irreversible intellectual disabilities, will never be rational, self-conscious beings.” With the knowledge of the child’s health before birth it gives a morally…

In fact, this procedure is very much true. Throughout Spartan history, babies were brought to the council by their parents, for an inspection. This inspection would now be called infanticide. Infanticide is the killing of a child within a year of birth. During the inspection, council men who are generally sixty years old or older would check for any deformities in the children before deciding if they were fit to be a Spartan. The inspection determined their fate. Would they grow up to be a…

Gardner, Renee Lee. “Subverting Patriarchy with Vulnerability: Dismantling the Motherhood Mandate in Toni Morrison's Beloved.” Women's Studies, vol. 45, no. 3, Feb. 2016, pp. 203–214. MLA International Bibliography [EBSCO], doi:10.1080/00497878.2016.1149029. Accessed 28 July 2017. In this journal article, Gardner explores the character of Sethe in relation to the institution of motherhood. Sethe is described as a slave mother who, desperately trying to spare her children from the horrors of…

Ingrid Mattson the first thing that I found very disheartening to hear was that of female infanticide. At first I didn’t know what that meant, but the quote from above made me realize how what it was, and how serious of an issue this is. It was later said that there is “link the mistreat of women with morality” (Teke, Part 2). Personally, I find…

Would you abort your child if you knew they were ill-fated and had a somber future? In the novel Unwind, by Neal Shusterman, three teenagers were sent off to be unwound, or aborted. Children are unwound because they become inconvenient or because of religious duties. Equivalently, in the article After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?, by Francesca Minerva, after-birth abortion is argued to be legalized. Raising children will birth defects and disabilities will put strain on their…