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I never met with any instance of a conviction
for the murder killing of a legitimate child. It is always
of bastard children — This seems to indicate
that it is the sense dread of shame & not
an avericious prudence that has been the motive
in all the instances we know — It seems therefore
that the parental feelings are always
stronger than avaricious prudence, but that
the sense of shame is somtimes stronger than
the parental feelings — Yet the opportunities
which a parent has, seemingly to appearance without
any risk of discovery, are so numerous & so
continual, that if to destroy a child in the interval between during in the course of the long period during
birth and the full which it becomes continues chargeable
that if such a practise were at all frequent,
it could not fail being every now & then made
known by instances of it's being punished. at the period when they become most chargeable
When a Parent or In the instances where a Parent or the Parents resolve to are known to
have endeavoured to rid themselves of a child it is not by killing,
but by desertion: and even thus I believe scarce
ever but under circumstances which have indicated
an impossibility their inability to maintain it. Instances
of desertion of children by one of the Parents


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only, where another there are two alone, live together are nothing
to this purpose. They The Children are not left destitute:
& the other Parent is abandoned along
with them.

HOMICIDE — of Infants. [BR][14]



Identifier: | JB/096/214/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.

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Box

096

Main Headings

legislation

Folio number

214

Info in main headings field

suicide homicide - of infants

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c14 /

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

31218

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