A legal defence of infanticide exists in NZ and other similar jurisdictions. But it is not an option in US courts, making the Clancy jury’s job more difficult.
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The recent deaths of two babies have both been reported as family violence. The overdue change in language gets us one step closer to keeping children safer.
As humans, we want a rational explanation to help us understand why someone would commit these horrific crimes.
From the moment a male lion is born it faces a gauntlet of challenges, ranging from snakebite to infanticide.
The harsher verdicts imposed on two child mothers shows why the UK’s law of infanticide remains so important, more than a century after it was introduced
The term ‘infanticide’ has specific meanings in a courtroom and is related to the separate defence of ‘insanity’. But legal language is contestable and can be archaic – adding to a jury’s burden.
South Africa does not provide safe alternatives for desperate mothers. Babies are abandoned in places such as open fields, dustbins and pit latrines.
English and Welsh governments are consulting the public about whether they should revoke temporary abortion rules.
A court has ruled that pre-existing mental health problems can be taken into account.
The killing of a newborn baby by its mother is the most shocking of crimes - but more needs to be done to understand the mental condition of the women that do it.
Stories of child abandonment in fiction have remarkable parallels to the real life experiences.
The high rate of child homicides in South Africa shows that reproductive, mental health and social services are failing to help vulnerable mothers.
It is a cruel world out there, particularly for young animals born into social groups where infanticide occurs. This dark side of evolution is revealed when adults – often males – kill offspring to promote…
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