Infanticide has been carried out for many centuries up to now though the motive varies from culture to culture. Statistics show that Ireland has the least cases of infanticide. The United States however ranks high on the list of countries with a high incidence rate of infanticide. For infanticides under one year, it ranks eleventh in the world and 1 st for infanticides in children aged 1-4 years. For children aged 5-14 years, it ranks 4 th . The most common reasons for infanticide include:-   * Gender bias   * Physical and mental disability   * Economic Constraints   * Insurance   * Young Maternal age   * Psychopathology   * Illiteracy   * Domestic problems Female infanticide is the most common type of gender-selective death. It is prevalent in China and India. It reflects the low status in which women are regarded. When demographic statistics were collected in the nineteenth century it was unveiled that no baby girls were found at all. In rural India, the killing of female infants was considered a wise course of action which means that the community encouraged and supported mothers to kill the baby girls especially if they had already birthed another girl before. Gender-selective infanticide has also been linked to sex-selective abortion in these countries. Sex-selective abortions were sparked by the availability of the amniocentesis test in 1974. Expectant mothers were offered this test during their ante-natal checkups which enabled them to know the sex of the fetus they were carrying before delivery. These resulted in increased abortion of female fetuses. A Bombay report from 1984 on abortions after the introduction of the amniocentesis test showed that 7,999 out of the 8,000 aborted fetuses were females. The main reason why these societies prefer the boy child to the girl child is that the former is considered a type of insurance as they bring income for the family, unlike women who in the traditional setting sit and wait for the men to provide. The second reason is that during the marriage, the girl child’s family has to part with large sums of money which are paid to the groom’s family as part of the dowry. For these reasons, daughters were considered liabilities. Gender-selective infanticide has resulted in gender imbalance in these countries with the ratio of women to men dropping significantly. According to 1901 census statistics in India there were 972 females for every 1,000 males. This dropped to 929 females for every 1,000 males in 1993. It has also resulted in the kidnapping and slave-trading of women due to the decrease in the overall number of women. Women have been forced into marriages for the procreation of more children of the female gender to counteract the shortage. It has also fueled the trade-in wives. The Chinese government employed two laws prohibiting infanticide. These are the Marriage Law and the Women’s Protection Law. It also introduced the maternal health care law in 1994 which strictly prohibits the use of technology such as ultrasounds for the identification of the gender of the fetus. Physicians, however, continue to use this technology without the knowledge of the law (Venkastesan, J., 2003). Disability has often been associated with sham