Editing Infanticide (section)

====Brazil====
The [[Tapirapé people|Tapirapé]] indigenous people of [[Brazil]] allowed no more than three children per woman, and no more than two of the same sex. If the rule was broken infanticide was practiced.<ref>{{Cite book | last =Johnson| first = Orna| contribution =The socioeconomic context of child abuse and neglect in native South America| editor-last = Korbin| editor-first = Jill| title = Child Abuse and Neglect| page = 63| publisher = [[University of California Press]]| place = Berkeley| year = 1981}}</ref> The [[Bororo]] killed all the newborns that did not appear healthy enough. Infanticide is also documented in the case of the [[Korubo people]] in the [[Amazon Basin|Amazon]].<ref>{{Cite book| last=Cotlow|first =Lewis |title =The Twilight of the Primitive |publisher=Macmillan|year = 1971|location= New York|page =65}}</ref>

The [[Yanomami]] men killed children while raiding enemy villages.<ref name="valero"/> [[Yanoama|Helena Valero]], a Brazilian woman kidnapped by Yanomami warriors in the 1930s, witnessed a Karawetari raid on her tribe:

{{blockquote|They killed so many. I was weeping for fear and for pity but there was nothing I could do. They snatched the children from their mothers to kill them, while the others held the mothers tightly by the arms and wrists as they stood up in a line. All the women wept. ... The men began to kill the children; little ones, bigger ones, they killed many of them.<ref name="valero">Christine Fielder, Chris King (2006). "''[https://books.google.com/books?id=9YInrVSoa9cC Sexual Paradox: Complementarity, Reproductive Conflict and Human Emergence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421200918/https://books.google.com/books?id=9YInrVSoa9cC |date=21 April 2023 }}''". Lulu PR. p. 156. {{ISBN|1-4116-5532-X}}</ref>}}