Sentence examples for infanticide I from inspiring English sources

Parents would celebrate the birth of a boy twice as much and there is some evidence of female infanticide (i.e. roadside abandonment and suffocation), though it was contrary to both civil and canon law.

Therefore, the frequency of long calling appears to be more closely tied to reproductive opportunities (i.e., mating effort) than to protection from infanticide (i.e., parenting effort).

Although infanticide (i.e., maternal crushing) might be less costly for the mother, sibling competition is likely to be a more precise mechanism for ensuring that the largest and most healthy offspring survive.

It was predicted that competition for teats would increase with increasing litter size, resulting in a higher mortality due to maternal infanticide (i.e., crushing) and starvation, thus keeping the number of surviving piglets constant.

As predicted, piglet mortality due to both maternal infanticide (i.e., crushing) of starving piglets (i.e., crushed piglets with no milk in their stomachs) and starvation caused by increased sibling competition, increased with litter size, resulting in a constant number of survivors.

While researching my book on female foeticide and infanticide, I met some Asian families in the UK and discovered that they still carried the cultural baggage of the "male child preference".

And then there were the Pretend Serious's milling about at the festival bar, banging on about wars and infanticides (I'm exempting from this equation the lot who genuinely put themselves on the fighting line).

It is hard to imagine how much meaner and nastier a campaign can get than distorting someone's record and accusing them of infanticide, but I have faith that the far-right could.

After reading through a piece about infanticide called "The News Is Here," Cathay said, "Wow!

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.

As forensic pathologist and infanticide expert Gregory Davis told me, "I have yet to see a wealthy white woman get charged" with killing a child she claimed was stillborn.