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INFANTICIDE, med. juris. The murder of a new born infant, Dalloz, Dict. Homicide, Sec. 4; Code Penal, 300. There is a difference between this offence and those known by the name of prolicide, (q.v.) and foeticide. (q.v.)
2. To commit infanticide the child must be wholly born; it is not. Sufficient that it was born so far as the head and breathed, if it died before it was wholly born. 5 Carr. & Payn. 329; 24 Eng. C. L. Rep. 344; S. C. 6 Carr: & Payn. 349; S. C. 25 Eng. C. L. Rep. 433.
3. When this crime is to be proved from circumstances, it is proper to consider whether the child had attained that size and maturity by which it would have been enabled to maintain an independent existence; whether it was born alive; and, if born alive, by what means it came to its death. 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 331 to 428, where these several questions are learnedly considered. See also 1 Briand, Med Leg. prem. part. c. 8 Cooper's Med. Jur. h.t. Vide Ryan's Med. Jur. 137; Med. Jur. 145, 194; Dr. Cummin's Proof of Infanticide considered Lecieux, Considerations Medico-legales sur l'Infanticide; Duvergie, Medicine Legale, art. Infanticide.

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The fact that all paternal males had higher T levels than non-paternal males supports the hypothesis that an increase in T levels would be involved in the neuroendocrine mechanisms that suppress infanticidal behavior and promote the onset of parental behavior in the Mexican volcano mouse.

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Hoogland (1995) noted that resident adult male prairie dogs enhance juvenile prairie dog survivorship by chasing small predators away and defending the home coterie against infanticidal male prairie dogs.

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If this country is now in the hands of an electoral majority consisting of revanchist ethnic minorities, illiterates, criminals and mental defectives, irresponsible welfare dependents, infanticidal women, and anti-American Marxists, it is no longer our fathers' United States.

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(19) Nicholas Woodward, 'Infanticide in Wales', Welsh History Review, 23:3 (2007), 94-125; Lynn Abrams, 'From Demon to Victim: The Infanticidal Mother in Shetland, 1699-1899', in Yvonne Galloway Brown and Rona Ferguson (eds), Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime, and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400 (East Linton, 2002), p.

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She argues that only a small percentage of women fitted the stereotype of the infanticidal woman as young, unmarried, seduced and abandoned, driven to infanticide by shame and desperation.

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And this may cause a newly migrated male bear to become potentially infanticidal towards their offspring.