Regarding twins, sometimes only the second child is killed or it is given to another family e. Quijo people in Ecuador. Female infanticide is the most common form of infanticide, both nowadays and in the past. This practice is mainly due to the fact that, in some cultures, males are considered to be socially more valuable than women. Moreover, female infanticide is sometimes related to the control of the population.
In China, infanticide is also practiced, mainly due to the one-child policy even though it existed before , which states that each couple can have only one child. Many parents prefer to have an abortion before the birth, if they know that the child is a girl.
However, among people who do not have this possibility, infanticide at birth can be performed. This practice goes directly against the Right to Life due to gender bias, it especially violates the Rights of girls.
Female infanticide and abortions have caused a great imbalance between the sexes in some regions. In , a UN report estimated that approximately million girls worldwide had disappeared, 80 million of them in China and India.
In the future, this could lead to an increase in girls trafficking or to forcing women to marry more than one man. Advocate for the protection of child rights by calling for an end to fires and deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest! Skip to content. Infanticide Infanticide: the violation of the Right to Life Infanticide is an act that goes directly against the Right to Life of children.
What is infanticide? Types of infanticide Direct or active Infanticide Direct or active Infanticide is killing the baby deliberately, by means of dehydration or starvation, suffocation or head injuries. Hence this paper argues that these attitudes are embedded in the societal structures that influence the cost-benefit analysis of new-born girls leading to their demise as an economically inferior gender. The delicate interplay of attitudes, structures and economics within a context of poverty, is presented by this paper as a comprehensive explanation as to why females, rather than males, are almost exclusively the victims of infanticide.
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For every girls born here, there used to be about boys. Now, roughly boys are born for every girls. Already, there are so-called bachelor villages cropping up in rural China, populated almost entirely by unemployed men. Officials say millions of female births have probably gone unreported in recent years. No one knows how many of those babies may have been abandoned or killed.
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