Infanticide

Killing your baby. What could be more depraved? Every year hundreds of women and men commit infanticide-they kill their newborns or let them die. Most infanticides remain undiscovered but every now and then a janitor follows a trail of blood to a tiny body in a trash bin. (Pinker, New York Times) Infanticide, the deliberate killing of infants, was once an economic necessity and exists even today. Many incidents of infanticide indicate that the killer …

…young men who mature less quickly and are more prone to cause serious physical injury to a baby. n Help keep the teenage pregnancy rate headed downward, contraceptives should be made available at no cost in public health clinics on and off high school campuses. n Teen parent programs are available in most communities and teaches young mothers how to take care of both her unborn child and newborn child. The program also will a