Part 1 of Essay
Infanticide was a topic that I was very emotional about. I could never understand how a mother or father could kill an infant or child. It would make my blood boil whenever I read or listened to a news story involving the murder or abandonment of an infant. How could someone just disregard a life they just brought into the ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... unmarked grave. “I never felt any sorrow,” Rani , a farm laborer with a weather beaten face, said through a interpreter. “ There was a lot of bitterness in my heart toward the baby because the gods should have given me a son.”(John Anderson, 1993, p. 6) Each year thousands of newborn girls are murdered by their mothers simply because they are female. Some women believe that sacrificing a daughter guarantees a son in the next pregnancy. Because of the tremendous preference for sons over daughters many female ....