Infanticide

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Accounts of parents who kill their infants date to the beginning of recorded history.1 As recently as the early 1800s in Europe, up to a third of live-born infants were killed or abandoned by their parents.2 In industrialized countries today, however, rates of infanticide have fallen to levels that, in comparison, might be considered low — about 9 per 100,000 live births in the United States from 1988 through 1991, according to the report by Overpeck and colleagues in this issue of the Journal. 3 Deaths from unintentional injuries outnumber deaths from injuries that are intentionally inflicted by more than two . . .

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