Infanticide

like India limit opportunities for their society to grow and make progress. 2. The continued practice of Female infanticide in countries such as India negatively impacts their society, because it reinforces the sociocultural believe that females are worth less than males. Because of this, it is unlikely that a public outcry for change will ever develop in countries where female infanticide is a regular practice. This is due to the fact that even women in these societies see female children as…

Why Nonhuman Primates Engage in Infanticide When anthropologists began to study infanticide, it was seen only as abnormal and counterproductive behaviour. Anthropologists could not discover any positive reasons for primates to engage in infanticide. This is partly due to the fact that infanticide is seen as criminal and deviant in human society. A second reason was due to a lack of evidence and insufficient research done about infanticide. Initially, infanticide was considered bizarre because…

ROUGH COPY “Infanticide in the UK was a trial based off of the 1624 statute It has been argued that the statute’s main focus was to discourage immorality and the birth of bastard children.” Case Name R.V MASSET Citation R.V MASSET, OB (Old Bailey?) 1899 (LDN, UK) Facts On October 27th Louisa Josephine Jemina Masset was accused of infanticide based off the 1624 Statute of Infanticide of her son Manfred Masset born April 24th, 1896. He was killed by asphyxiation and defacement. On…

valued more for their image than their intelligence. The countries of India and China have the practices of female infanticide, where it's actually the most popular. The documentary “It’s a Girl” first shows an Indian women stating “Women have the power to give life,” she explains, “and the power to take it away.” (It's a Girl) India and china have rooted in them the practice of infanticide. The film opens up with a woman telling her story about her births. She has been pregnant eight times, all…

Maternal infanticide is when a mother kills their children with In the five years of life. In the article, it states that maternal infanticide is common in the united states, with a 30 percent of more homicides than any other developing country. According to the article they are various ways on why moms kill their children and many of them fall under the unwanted child category, although social factors such as social class can contribute to this trend because they are not able to get an abortion…

In Adrienne Su’s “Female Infanticide: a Guide for Mothers” and Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind”, the two poems present a feminist theme to the reader; the works both show that women should be celebrated instead of condemned. One tactic that Sexton and Su commonly utilise in their works is the use of sound in order to emphasize the themes of their respective works, however they each do so in distinctive manners. Su and Sexton utilise different approaches to sound; Su focuses on the natural music of the…

completely dependent on their male counterparts. As one in three women will experience violence based on gender during their lives, this puts women in an incredibly dangerous position that can be detrimental to their physical and mental health. Infanticide is a steady problem throughout parts of southern Asia because daughters are seen as less valuable and are less desired than sons (Scott). There are currently over seven-hundred million girls living today that were forced to be married under…

Sethe’s act of infanticide results in her damaging her remaining daughter, Denver mentally, who now fears her mother rather than feeling for her. The girl feels desolate and often disconnected from her loved ones, especially as she feels troubled by her mother’s actions even though she values her mother’s motherly behavior. The young girl asserts that “I love my mother but I know she killed one of her own daughters, and as tender as she is with me, I’m scared of her because of it. She missed…

Singer talks about his beliefs and theories on abortion and infanticide. There are many opinions and perspectives on these topics but within utilitarianism is a kind of consequentialism, which states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility and its actions are solely judged by its consequences. Knowing the meaning, Singer makes sense in a way that a baby cannot maximize utility and a baby doesn’t even know or make decisions. Although this may be correct, to me, its not morally…

Female infanticide is the deliberate and organized killing of girls at or soon after birth by the men in the society. This issue is more common in countries like India and China, where society values male children over female children because a female is considered a burden and a disgrace, or in the case of India a very expensive investment to the father. As a human being and a woman in this world, I view female infanticide to be outrageous and unrighteous and believe there should be a better…