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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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Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Durham University
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Lecturer, Law of Persons and Family, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Anthropology and Childhood, The Open University
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Professor and Chair, Southwestern Environmental Science and Policy, Northern Arizona University
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Planetary Health and Resilient Conservation Group, Griffith University
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Research associate, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Zoology, University of Cambridge
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