Original sentence: === Infanticide in History ===.Child sacrifice in Carthage is one form.It was common in all well-studied ancient cultures, including those of ancient Greece, Rome, India, China, and Japan.The practice of infanticide has taken many forms
Edited sentence: At this stage, it is referred to as early infanticidal childrearing.Evidence suggests that infanticide began with the dawn of humanity.Going beyond this knee-jerk response, various explanations, both general and culture-specific, have been suggested as the motivations for the practice.Infanticide was common in all well-studied ancient cultures, including those of ancient Greece, Rome, India, China, and Japan.Later on, the practice of infanticide became associated with child sacrifice as in Carthage.Of course, none of these are explanations for infanticide; modern societies possess all of these features and yet refrain from encouraging or sanctioning infanticide.Some people blame cultural reasons.Such have included a preference for male over female children; superstitions attached to children with particular birthmarks or defects; and social stigma attached to childbearing outside acceptable common practice (e.The most popular explanation of infanticide is to deny that it ever happened.There are numerous possible causes of infanticide.children born "out of wedlock" or to cross-caste relationships)