The word 'infanticide' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of killing an infant or newborn child. For example, "Infanticide has been reported in many countries around the world, but laws and punishments vary by region."
I studied chinese literature and in my senior year I did some research on policy, I was going to do it as thesis, and when I was researching this I discovered widespread infanticide in the countryside.
In the earliest days of the one-child policy, this sometimes meant female infanticide.
Scratch marks on the bodies suggested that almost all deaths were due to infanticide.
One in ten of those dynastic daughters was done away with at birth.Female infanticide clearly continues in China, even though it is illegal and condemned by the government.
Any pro-life philanthropist wanting to save as many as possible of the world's unborn could do no better than to put his money into developing technologies that would allow sex selection before conception.In as much as it replaces infanticide, sex-selective abortion will be seen by most people as an improvement; and the evidence suggests that the two are indeed alternatives.
Infanticide is far rarer, but neglect or maltreatment of female babies results in a considerably higher mortality rate than among boys.The one-child policy is by no means entirely to blame.
We do not permit prisoners on hunger strike to refuse sustenance, nor parents of mentally impaired children to commit infanticide.
They must be so discouraged by their own low status in society that they seek a sex-selective abortion, permit or commit female infanticide, or neglect to feed and keep healthy daughters.
Of the 196 girls given away that Ms Johnson tracked back to their birth-parents all but 11 were second or subsequent daughters.Modern technology now offers Chinese parents an alternative to adoption and infanticide as a way of dealing with unwanted girls: sex-selective abortion.
Popular tales railed against injustice, taking on infanticide, incest, rape and murder, but in a magical realm that seems closer to dreams than reality.
The government wanted to find out whether the country's gender imbalance was primarily due to the abortion and infanticide of females, or whether many of the missing girls were in fact alive and being concealed.
