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{{Violence against women}}
'''Female infanticide''' is the deliberate killing of newborn female children. Female infanticide is
In 1978, [[anthropologist]] Laila Williamson, in a summary of data she had collated on how widespread [[infanticide]] was, found that infanticide had occurred on every continent and was carried out by groups ranging from [[hunter gatherers]] to highly developed societies, and that, rather than this practice being an exception, it has been commonplace.<ref>{{cite web|last=Milner|first=Larry S.|title=A Brief History of Infanticide |url=http://www.infanticide.org/history.htm|publisher=Infanticide.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060815193200/http://infanticide.org/history.htm|archive-date=2006-08-15 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The practice has been documented among the Indigenous peoples of Australia, Northern Alaska and South Asia,{{cn|date=January 2023}} and Barbara Miller argues the practice to be "almost universal", even in the [[Western world]]. Miller contends that female infanticide is commonplace in regions where women are not employed in agriculture and regions in which [[Dowry|dowries]] are the norm.{{sfn|Einarsdóttir|2004|p=142}} In 1871 in ''[[The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex]]'', [[Charles Darwin]] wrote that the practice was commonplace among the aboriginal tribes of Australia.{{sfn|Darwin|1871|p=365}} Female infanticide is also closely linked to a lack of education and high poverty rates, which explains why it is widely prevalent in locations such as [[Female infanticide in India|India]], [[Female infanticide in Pakistan|Pakistan]], and West Africa.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Preventing gender-biased sex selection |url=https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Women/GenderAndEquality/PreventingGenderBiasedSexSelection.pdf}}</ref>
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