<unk>  (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring.<unk>  was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children, its main purpose the prevention of resources being spent on weak or disabled offspring. Unwanted infants were normally abandoned to die of exposure, but in some societies they were deliberately killed.<unk>  is now widely illegal, but in some places the practice is tolerated or the prohibition not strictly enforced.<unk>  is reportedly used by the state of North Korea as a punitive or social-control measure, and may be used or have been used recently in other totalitarian states, also in some tribal societies. Most Stone Age human societies routinely practiced<unk> , and estimates of children killed by<unk>  in the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras vary from 15 to 50 percent.<unk>  continued to be common in most societies after the historical era began, including ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the Phoenicians, ancient China, ancient Japan, Aboriginal Australia, Native Americans, and Native Alaskans.<unk>  became forbidden in Europe and the Near East during the 1st millennium. Christianity forbade<unk>  from its earliest times, which led Constantine the Great and Valentinian I to ban<unk>  across the Roman Empire in the 4th century. The practice ceased in Arabia in the 7th century after the founding of Islam, since the Quran prohibits<unk> .<unk>  of male babies had become uncommon in China by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), whereas<unk>  of female babies became more common during the One-Child Policy era (1979–2015). During the period of Company rule in India, the East India Company attempted to eliminate<unk>  but were only partially successful, and female<unk>  in some parts of India still continues.<unk>  is now very rare in industrialised countries but may persist elsewhere. Parental<unk>  researchers have found that mothers are far more likely than fathers to be the perpetrators of neonaticide and slightly more likely to commit<unk>  in general.
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