The Inuit people had to surivive in harsh conditions and were not able to have an abundant amount of food for people to eat (see fig. 1). “Starvation was common - it was not unusual for whole villages to perish in the winter - and consequently infanticide, particularly of females, was employed to keep population sizes down,” (www.cityref…). In our society this may have been cruel but if they did not practise infanticide there was always the chance of the whole population of a tribe dying out. They did not just practise infanticide; it is also well know that the elders would take their own lives so that future generations would have a chance at survival, (www.ci

All of the nations mentioned all have different reasons for infanticide. The Inuit use of infanticide is more understandable. They had to do it to survive. If they did not practise the technique there whole society could have been wiped out because of famine. As for china, it is partly because of the law that each couple can only have one child. Males are more precious in that society so it is important for the couple to have males, which created the practise of infanticide. In India, it has nothing to do with population control. Infanticide is used on females because they are simply too expensive to raise. Also, males are more precious to their society, just the same as they are in China.

The combination of dowry and wedding expenses usually add up to more than a million rupees ([US] $35,000). In India the average civil servant earns about 100,000 rupees ($3,500) a year. Given these figures combined with the low status of women, it seems not so illogical that the poorer Indian families would want only male children, (www.gendercide…).

tyref…). Although infanticide may sound socially wrong to the western cultures, it is understandable that these people had to do this so that they could survive the harsh winters. There was only s

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