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What is The Meaning of Infanticide Child-murder; the killing of an infant before or after birth. Infanticide is the intentional killing of children under the age of 12 months according to the Infanticide Act 1938 in the UK. Some occurrences of infanticide in some countries Infanticide in Ancient Egypt In Egyptian households, at all social levels, children of both sexes were valued and there is no evidence of infanticide.[19] The religion of the Ancient Egyptians forbade infanticide and during the Greco-Roman period they rescued abandoned babies from manure heaps. Jan Assmann asserts there i