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Infanticide was a topic that I was very emotional about. I could never understand how a mother or father could kill an infant or child. It would make my blood boil whenever I read or listened to a news story involving the murder or abandonment of an infant. How co ....

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.... sorrow,” Rani , a farm laborer with a weather beaten face, said through a interpreter. “ There was a lot of bitterness in my heart toward the baby because the gods should have given me a son.”(John Anderson, 1993, p. 6) Each year thousands of newborn girls are murdered by their mothers simply because they are female. Some women believe that sacrificing a daughter guarantees a son in the next pregnancy. Because of the tremendous preference for sons over daughters many females are abandoned or allowed to die of starvation. Others cannot afford the dowry that would be demanded for the girl’s marriage. For other mothers, killing a female ....