GC: n

S: BBC – http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/medical/infanticide_1.shtml (last access: 10 November 2013); http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/femaleinfanticide.html (last access: 23 August 2015).

N: 1. Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of girl babies.
2. Female infanticide is more common than male infanticide, and in some countries, particularly India and China, is likely to have serious consequences on the balance of the sexes in the population.
3. The reasons behind it are almost always cultural, rather than directly religious.
4. The murder of a young girl child, often occurring as a deliberate murder of a girl infant or young girl child or as the result of neglect.

S: 1, 2 & 3. BBC – http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/medical/infanticide_1.shtml (last access: 10 November 2013). 4. TERMIUM PLUS.

SYN: gender-selective killing, gendercide.

S: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/medical/infanticide_1.shtml (last access: 10 November 2013)

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