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Anon opines on a clown named Ronald
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https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42911813
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26506086/
TL;Dr the Romans in particular and most ancient civilizations practiced infanticide for various reasons. One of the reasons commonly claimed for the popularity of the early Christian church is a complete ban on the practice (though precisely how legal it was at the time anyways is debated).
The Roman usage of it is particularly notable for the widespread evidence, the hypocrisy given their condemnation of Carthage for a supposed ritual sacrifice of noble infants, and the extremely patriarchal nature of the society meaning the women presumably had no recourse for refusal if a head of house demanded it, until the early Christian church absolutely forbade it by "divine" decree.