Sentence examples for in the infanticide from inspiring English sources

"Specifically, they showed significantly longer looking times in the infanticide condition than in the control conditions".

Obviously, there's work to be done in both India and China, because the infanticide rate of girl babies is still overwhelmingly high, and unfortunately with technology, parents are able to use sonograms to determine the sex of a baby, and to abort girl children simply because they'd rather have a boy.

In 1795, infanticide was made punishable in the North-West provinces and a law against infanticide, the Infanticide Regulation Act, was passed in 1870.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, lions and all other manner of creature have been documented in the acts of infanticide, rape, torture and murder.

The characters are seven chromatically differentiated women (brown, yellow, purple, red, green, blue and orange) from points across the country, who recite "dark phrases of womanhood" (the first words in the play) involving infanticide, incest and other horrors.

For example, the paternity uncertainty created through polyandrous mating can lead to an increase paternal care (Goldizen 1987; Santos and Nakagawa 2013) or a reduction in the probability of infanticide (Lukas and Huchard 2014).

"We have also helped contribute in lowering the female infanticide rates through similar awareness programmes and also because families are convinced we will help them care for their girls".

Reproductive skew models that investigated the effectiveness of infanticide in concentrating reproduction in the dominant suggest that infanticide is a viable strategy freeing subordinates from restraining their reproduction if offspring are cheap to produce (Johnstone and Cant 1999; Hager and Johnstone 2004).

In Europe, infanticide included the practice of "overlaying" (smothering) an infant sharing a bed with its parents and the abandonment of unwanted infants to the custody of foundling hospitals, in which one-third to four-fifths of incumbents failed to survive.

Though the birds breed in colonies, infanticide is fairly common in this species, with rockfowl attempting to kill the young of other pairs.

In 1994, the Tamil film director P. Bharathiraja, whose own Kallar community engaged in female infanticide, made "Karuththamma," which highlighted the evils of the practice.