An historical overview of infanticide in South Africa

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dc.contributor.author	Van der Westhuizen, Carina
dc.date.accessioned	2011-01-18T11:09:02Z
dc.date.available	2011-01-18T11:09:02Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.citation	Van der Westhuizen, C. 2009, 'An historical overview of infanticide in South Africa', Fundamina : A Journal of Legal History, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 174-192.	en
dc.identifier.issn	1021-545X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3936
dc.description	Journal article	en
dc.description.abstract	Infanticide is the practice of intentionally killing an infant of a given species by the parents themselves or with their consent. Infanticide used to be practiced for various reasons such as the fact that a baby was born out of wedlock, for economic reasons (for example population control), for sex selection or ridding society of potentially burdensome deformed members. Silverman remarks that infanticide is the oldest method of family planning. It was a more popular method of population control than abortion - it was safer for the mother and the gender of the baby was known.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Infanticide
dc.subject	Infant killing
dc.title	An historical overview of infanticide in South Africa	en
dc.type	Article	en