Infanticide Past and Present

Name: Infanticide Past and Present
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ISBN: 9780393333244

ISBN-10: 0393333248

ISBN-13: 9780393333244

Edition: 2011

Authors: Maria W. Piers

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The incidents of infanticide cited here indicate that the killers, invariably mothers or mother figures, were below the level of parental caring, i.e., underdeveloped. Such growth-stunting results from negative life experiences and emotional starvation. Throughout the ages, oppression has kept women from realizing their full generative potential. Thus, they become ready infant-killers.Dr. Piers explores periods in history when infanticide became and increasingly ambiguous custom leading to communal systems of defense mechanisms that protected the community from guilt, but allowed the continuation of infanticide. In the twentieth century, infanticide has become comparatively infrequent.…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/1980
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 140
Size: 7.48" wide x 8.46" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English