Infanticide.doc

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 is no clear evidence of human sacrifice ever happening in Ancient Egypt. 在埃及的家庭,社会水平,男女人杀婴的价值,没有证据。[19]古埃及人的宗教禁止杀婴和古希腊罗马时期他们从肥料堆救出了被遗弃的婴儿。简阿斯曼断言没有明确的活人献祭发生在古埃及的证据。 Infanticide was known in China as early as the 3rd century BC, and, by the time of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), it was widespread in some provinces. Buddhist belief in transmigration allowed poor residents of the country to kill their newborn children if they felt unable to care for them, hoping that they would be reborn in better circumstances. Furthermore, some Chinese did not consider newborn children fully human, and saw life beginning at some point after the sixth month after birth. 杀婴被认为早在公元前3世纪,在中国,时间的宋代(公元960 - 1279),这是普遍的在一些省份。佛教相信轮回允许贫穷国家的居民杀死刚出生的孩子如果他们觉得无法照顾他们,希望他们会在更好的情况下重生。此外,一些中国并不认为刚出生的孩子完全“人”,看到“生活”在某种程度上开始后出生后第六个月。 2.Infanticide in Georgia and Russia The Georgian killed newborn females by filling their mouths with hot ashes.Russian woman throwing her baby to wolves Infanticide in Japan Since feudal Japan the common slang for infanticide was mabiki which means to pull plants from an overcrowded garden. A typical method in Japan was smothering through wet paper on the babys mouth and nose.Mabiki persisted in the 19th century and early 20th century. To bear twins was perceived as barbarous and unlucky and efforts were made to hide or kill one or both twins. 从封建日本杀婴的常见的俚语是“mabiki”这意味着将植物从拥挤的花园