neonaticide
English
Etymology
neonate + -cide
Noun
neonaticide (countable and uncountable, plural neonaticides)
- The murder of a newborn within 24 hours of birth.
- 2007 February 4, Cara Buckley, “Brooklyn Girl Threw Away Her Newborn Son, Police Say”, in New York Times:
- But critics of the law said mothers who immediately kill their babies after giving birth, a practice known as neonaticide, are usually in deep denial about their pregnancies.
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See also
- abortion
- filicide, infanticide, pedicide, prolicide