India is failing to prevent large-scale female infanticide and foeticide‚ according to a UN report. As a result‚ says the UN’s World Population Fund‚ India has one of the highest imbalances in the world between males and females. The Fund says that the low status of women in Indian society is mainly to blame‚ and criticises India for its lack of commitment to tackling gender inequality. Other Asian countries‚ particularly China‚ have similar problems. Poverty‚ ignorance and culture combine to
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Infanticide is a Terminal Abortion Procedure Infanticide has recently come to be regarded as a biologically significant phenomenon. The fact that infanticide is considered an abhorrent practice in our own society is only a part of the reason why researchers for so long failed to realize how widespread infanticide is in the natural world. Early field reports of infanticide say that it used to be happened among birds‚ langur monkeys and lions were sketchy. Different kind of propositions say that
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Infanticide MEANING: Infanticide is a word that comes from the Latin language‚ in-fans‚ meaning unable to speak‚ which it is commonly used as a more formal word for baby and cide child murder‚ (Webster‚ 2004.) Put it together and it translates to one who kills an infant. The full meaning is to kill the infant before or after birth‚ with the consent of the parent‚ family‚ or community‚ (CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA‚ Infanticide‚ 2004) According to the French Criminal Code the word is limited to the murder
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stunned by the old man’s speech.He told them that they had never allowed any female child to live in that village and they used to drown them in the village pond which now holds the curse of over thousand baby girls drowned alive.When Aakansha’s money conceived and gave birth to twin baby girls the villagers were prepared for the custom to take place as Aakansha’s father had also been part of that evil practise when a female child was born in other families.So to escape the murder of 2 innocent babies
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Infanticide and Sex Selection Past‚ Present‚ and Future James C. Gill University of Missouri- St. Louis July 31‚ 2011 Abstract Infanticide is the killing of unwanted babies. It was common throughout the Roman Empire and many countries in the ancient world. In those times infanticide was accepted because it was a way limiting family size that was safe for the mother (“Infanticide common in Roman empire” 2011). More recently sex selection has been a problem in many
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against child-murder by all major religions‚ female infanticide has been for centuries a prominent and socially acceptable event‚ notably in one of the most populous countries in this world‚ India. Even today‚ the extent of the problem is measured in alarming proportions all around the globe: "at least 60 million females in Asia are missing and feared dead‚ victims of nothing more than their sex. Worldwide‚ research suggests‚ the number of missing females may top 100 million." The data is more astounding
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Historically females were seen as non-criminals as their pathways into criminality was seen to be invisible. Daly and Chesney refer this as the gender ratio problem where gender differences results in female committing less crime than male. Heidensohn states that female offenders tend to serve sentences for nonviolent offenses such as property crimes‚ drug-related crimes and fraud. It was only prostitution in which female were dominated. However‚ the female prison population has increased. The female prison
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Female circumcision is a common practice in parts of Africa‚ this is done to African girls at a very young age because it is suppose to assure everyone that every girl who gets mutilated will remain a virgin until the day she marries. This is also suppose to assure everyone that when a girl marries she will not cheat on her husband and will be a good wife. This violates womens rights on so many levels‚ it is dangerous‚ it is unfair‚ it is just torture. This ritual can have so many complications during
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between 18 – 35 years old. The majority of those who commit acts of terrorism are men. However‚ recent notice has been given to women as actors in terrorist attacks. Female terrorist have been involved in a number of incidents. Women have been involved in a wide range of tasks in support of terrorist activity so the concept of the female terrorist is not a new one. A motivational factor that seems to be clear is the intention for fame and acknowledgement. The image of heroism is important to a number
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Michael Tooley’s article‚ "Abortion and Infanticide" raised some points about the morality of abortion. He discussed the conservatives’ ethical objection against abortion which states that fetuses and infants have a right to life. The conservatives believe that early abortion is immoral. In his article‚ he made a case against the conservative position on abortion. His case boils down to two claims: (i) We should accept that early abortion is immoral only if we accept the "potentiality principle"
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