Female Infanticide in India Infanticide was a topic that I was very emotional about. I could never understand how a mother or father could kill an infant or child. It would make my blood boil whenever I read or listened to a news story involving the murder or abandonment of an infant. How could someone just disregard a life they just brought into the world. A life they were to love and care for. I know these feelings are from my heart and deeply rooted in my upbringing and education, but after researching this topic I realize there are many social, cultural and economic reasons that lead to the practice of female infanticide in In