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Unfortunately, such inconclusive archaeology is our best evidence for infanticide because men didn’t write about it very much at all. Exposure comes up every so often, but the deliberate killing of a newborn very rarely does. The contexts in which it does appear, though, do tend to support the perspective that, in most circumstances, infanticide by the family was not considered to be a social or cultural problem that ever needed to be dealt with.
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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