Infanticide can be described as the killing of infants, (www. Infanticide has occurred all over the world and in has occurred in the past, present and will most likely occur in the future of different nations. There are many reasons why different nations decide to practise Infanticide. A nation that has practised this in the past is the Inuit of Canada and two nations that are currently practising infanticide in the present are both China and India. Each has different reasons for it and each will be separately explored within this report. .
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.cityref ). 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 so much food that could go around to everybody. In the eyes of the Inuit, it was a normal practise. It was simply a survival technique and part of their culture. It would not be fair to raise a child who might have the chance to possible starve to death. .
In china, infanticide is a common practise although it is declared illegal by the government. Killing females is done more often then male infanticide. In China, "Female infanticide is the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females," (www,gendercide ).
