Talk:Infanticide

Aboriginal Australians

This page suggests that Aboriginal Australians commited high rates of infanticide, however this was mostly reported on as a reasoning for the stolen generation and was not anywhere near as common as many old sources suggest. Modern sources such as say that "What was, in all likelihood, an exceptional and incidental practice amongst Aboriginal people, rather than a matter of common custom, was raised up by the interaction of European and Aboriginal fears of the other into a morally and racially defining trope that marked whole communities as ‘infanticidal’, and as people whose common rights could be morally suspended."

References

What about Waʾd al-banāt?

The literature mentions a form of ritual infanticide present in the pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula, of which the Qur'an speaks several times: if I read it correctly, Mohammed meets ʿĀṣim al-Minqarī, called Sayyid Ahl al-wabar, who has to sacrifice his daughter but cries because she is old enough to speak and begs him not to do so. This fiche only mentions the case of Egypt but says nothing about the Arabian peninsula. Would anyone have more detailed information? If not, I would like to create a dedicated fiche. --S.vecchiato (talk) 04:49, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Passive Infanticide In The Developed World

This should be covered somewhere on Wikipedia wether here or somewhere else.:

A healthy society is marked by its care and prioritization of its younger generation. Yet recent history indicates a decay in the health of humans living in advanced societies, and a general direction toward acceptance of animalistic infanticide. In 2008, the future of an entire generation was sacrificed to keep older wealthy Wall Street bankers from suffering economic demise. During the 2020 coronavirus plandemic, the economic future of many young adults was sacrificed for the sake of the older ones when housing bailouts and eviction bans contributed to increases in the number of young adults unable to afford to buy homes; and when many young adults were stripped of mentoring opportunities that exist with in-person work settings in an effort to preserve the health of older adults. Furthermore, infant children, as a result of being forced into a masked world as part of a frantic and ineffective effort to preserve the health of adults, experienced reduction in cognitive learning abilities. Children, generally not as susceptible to the effects of the virus, experienced permanent trauma from stunted education and lack of critical social interaction during their developmental years, all due to schools being shut down to preserve the health of adults. 50.246.86.33 (talk) 12:49, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Reached its peak in Europe during WWII?

this seems sensational at best and not at all academic. Alexander R. Burton (talk) 08:51, 23 June 2023 (UTC)