Postpartum mental disorder could be used as a legal defense for women who kill their children under a bill introduced in the Legislature. The bill was filed this month by Rep. Jessica Farrar, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paris Mayo gave birth to her son Stanley alone – at home, in silence, while her parents and brother were upstairs. Mayo claimed ...
Saint Omer is a French film that picked up distinctions at the Venice International Film Festival and has hit wider distribution in the United States. It’s based on the story of Fabienne Kabou, a ...
A paper by two bioethicists arguing for “after-birth abortion” has stirred up a debate, to say the least (here’s an earlier post about it). I asked Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton ...
Editor's note: This story is about infanticide — the killing of a newborn baby — and includes graphic descriptions of that practice. We had to pass two strictly-manned, massive gates to access the ...
"Routine" infanticide of newborns by married parents in early modern Europe was a much more widespread practice than previously thought, a new book posits. This fresh insight sits at the heart of a ...
An international team of scientists has shed light on cannibalism and infanticide carried out by primates, documenting these acts for the first time in the mustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax). The ...
A tragic infanticide at Foxconn's Devanahalli unit highlights critical gaps in mental health awareness, workplace support, and reproductive healthcare for young women in large electronics ...
Editor's note: This story is about infanticide — the killing of a newborn baby — and includes graphic descriptions of that practice. We had to pass two strictly-manned, massive gates to access the ...