Infanticide
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Killing your baby. What could be more depraved? Every year hundreds of women and men commit -they kill their newborns or let them die. Most s remain undiscovered but every now and then a janitor follows a trail of blood to a tiny body in a trash bin. (Pinker, New York Times) , the deliberate ki ....
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.... or unwanted infants. There was much debate whether the Foundling Hospitals would help to reduce the rate of . Studies show there was a high rate of within the hospitals themselves. (King, Once A Week, Sept. 1865) Most of these institutions prove to be more cruel than direct . Due to insufficient hospital staff and the inefficiency of adoption procedures, human babies died in misery from sheer neglect. (Piers, 14,82)
There are no available statistics that demonstrate an increase i ....
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