Editing Infanticide (section)

===Social stigma===
Infants have be killed for superstitious accusations, such as being witches, often by being buried alive or left to starve.<ref name=fp/> Those at higher risk of being accused and killed include the disabled, [[albino]]s, those born prematurely, twins,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irinnews.org/report/89858/rights-child-witchcraft-allegations-on-the-rise |title=Child witchcraft allegations on the rise – Angola – Benin – DRC – Central African Republic – Cameroon – Gabon – Nigeria – Chad – Children – Education – Gender Issues – Human Rights – Urban Risk |agency=IRINnews |access-date=5 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205090303/http://www.irinnews.org/report/89858/rights-child-witchcraft-allegations-on-the-rise |archive-date=5 February 2015  |date=15 July 2010 }}</ref> children of single mothers and [[intersex]] infants. Intersex infants commonly suffer from infanticide particularly in [[developing countries]], largely caused by stigma surrounding intersex conditions. Often intersex infants are [[Child abandonment|abandoned]], while others are actively killed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity/intersex-people|title=Intersex people|website=OHCHR|access-date=21 August 2023|archive-date=8 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708011645/https://www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity/intersex-people|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="OHCR1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/BackgroundNoteHumanRightsViolationsagainstIntersexPeople.pdf|title=Background Notes on Human Rights Violations against Intersex People|website=OHCHR|access-date=21 August 2023|archive-date=21 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821201746/https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/BackgroundNoteHumanRightsViolationsagainstIntersexPeople.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39780214|title=The midwife who saved intersex babies|work=BBC News|date=May 3, 2017|access-date=21 August 2023|archive-date=15 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170515044758/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39780214|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Legitimacy (family law)|Illegitimacy]] and its shame has led mothers or their families to kill infants.<ref>{{cite web |last1=PHULL |first1=IMRAN |title=Curse of Infanticide |url=https://nation.com.pk/25-Jun-2018/curse-of-infanticide |website=The Nation |access-date=9 July 2020 |date=25 June 2018 |archive-date=2 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202074949/https://nation.com.pk/25-Jun-2018/curse-of-infanticide |url-status=dead }}</ref> This was also the impetus for a mother's decision to give her child to a [[baby farmer]]. Baby farming is the practice of accepting custody of a child in return for payment. This was most common in Victorian Britain. Baby farmers sometimes neglected or murdered the babies to keep costs down.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mosalski |first=Ruth |date=2017-11-16 |title=The horrible story of the last woman to be hanged in Wales |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/horrible-story-last-woman-hanged-13906837 |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=Wales Online |language=en}}</ref>