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A 1999 U.S. Department of Justice study concluded that mothers were responsible for a higher share of children killed during infancy between 1976 and 1997 in the United States, while fathers were more likely to have been responsible for the murders of children aged eight or older. [1]
Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children, [1]: 61 its main purpose being the prevention of resources being spent on weak or disabled offspring.
Overall, about 2 million Christians were killed in Anatolia between 1894 and 1924, 40 percent of the original population. [284] Greek genocide and Pontic genocide: Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) 1914 1922 300,000 [285] 900,000 [286]
In 2008, there were 1,494 child homicides in the United States. Of those killed, 1,035 were male and 452 were female. [1]In the United States, about half of the states that maintain the death penalty have included child murder to their list of aggravating factors that may make a murder punishable by death.
At least 157 people were killed and 270 were injured last year in unintentional shootings by children, according to Everytown, an advocacy group for firearm safety.
In Kazakhstan, villagers "discovered people among them who ate body parts and killed children" and a survivor remembered how he repeatedly saw "a little foot float[ing] up, or a hand, or a child's heel" in cauldrons boiling over a fire. [25] During the German siege of Leningrad in 1941–1944, thousands of people were arrested for cannibalism ...
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Target 3.2 states that "by 2030, the goal is to end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age with all countries aiming to reduce under‑5 mortality to as low as 25 per 1,000 live births." [4] Child mortality rates have decreased in the last 40 years.