Sondra:
 
 Awhile back I mentioned a picture in one of my textbooks about a culture
 that apparently allows the children to starve to death.
 
 From: "Cultural Anthropology" by William A. Haviland, page 49.
 
 The caption for a picture of a young girl, still living in the picture:
 
 "An Ik child in the unused kitchen of her family compound. Her parents were
 unable to feed her, and when she persisted in her demands, they shut her in.
 Too weak to break out, she died there; a few days later her body was
 unceremoniously thrown out. Such acts have become standard among the Ik."
 Jim
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