The Killing of Parents, Sick Persons, Children—Feticide

Chapter XVII

Parricide the most aggravated form of murder, pp. –386.—The custom of abandoning or killing parents who are worn out with age or disease, p. sq.—Its causes, pp. –390.—The custom of abandoning or killing persons suffering from some illness, p. sq.—Its causes, p. sq.—The father’s power of life and death over his children, p. sq.—Infanticide among many savage races permitted or even enjoined by custom, pp. –398.—The causes of infanticide, and how it has grown into a regular custom, pp. –402.—Among many savages infanticide said to be unheard of or almost so, p. sq.—The custom of infanticide not a survival of earliest savagery, but seems to have grown up under specific conditions in later stages of development, p. .—Savages who disapprove of infanticide, p. sq.—The custom of infanticide in most cases requires that the child should be killed immediately or soon after its birth, p. sq.—Infanticide among semi-civilised or civilised races, pp. –411.—The practice of exposing new-born infants vehemently denounced by the early Fathers of the Church, p. .—Christian horror of infanticide, p. sq.—The punishment of infanticide in Christian countries, p. sq.—Feticide among savages, p. sq.—Among more civilised nations, p. sq.—According to Christian views, a form of murder, p. sq.—Distinctions between an embryo informatus and an embryo formatus, p. sq.—Modern legislation and opinion concerning feticide, p. .