A nation that has practised this in the past is the Inuit of Canada and two nations that are currently practising infanticide in the present are both China and India. ... "Starvation was common - it was not unusual for whole villages to perish in the winter - and consequently infanticide, particularly of females, was employed to keep population sizes down," (www.cityref ). In our society this may have been cruel but if they did not practise infanticide there was always the chance of the whole population of a tribe dying out. ... In India, it has nothing to do with population control. ...

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A couple of years later, the Feminism movement increased its importance around the population, by a political theory of Mary Wollstonecraft, "Vindication of the Rights of Women", that was published in 1792. ... The first wave of feminism happened in the early 20th century, all through the world, but it was spread mostly in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States. ...

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