• adoption of children,

  • adopted ones should be named after their fathers, al-Ahzab 33:5
  • al-Ahzab 33:4,37

• baby daughters wrongly thought an evil sign, an-Nahl 16:58-59; az-Zukhruf 43:18; an-Najm 53:21-22
• breast feed for two years, al-Baqarah 2:233; Luqman 31:34
• do not kill for fear of poverty, al-An`am 6:151; bani Isra'il 17:31
• female offspring buried alive, at-Takwir 81:8-9
• gift of female/male offspring, ash-Shura 42:49
• helpless, an-Nisa' 4:127
• ignorant at time of birth, an-Nahl 16:78
• in Heaven, al-Mu'min 40:8
• killing of, 
• nursing of, al-Baqarah 2:233; an-Nisa' 4:11
• of Adam, see CHILDREN OF ADAM.
• of Israel, see ISRAEL/CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.

• commandment concerning killing by, al-Ma'idah 5:32
• parents of those whose children died before puberty, see puberty.

• pre-Islamic customs of slaying children, al-An`am 6:137,140
• wet nurses, al-Baqarah 2:233
• an-Nahl 16:72; bani Isra'il 17:64; al-Kahf 18:46; Maryam 19:77; ash-Shu`ara' 26:133; Saba' 34:35; al-Fatir 35:37; al-Mu'min 40:67; al-Ahqaf 46:15; al-Hadid 57:20; al-Mujadilah 58:17; al-Munafiqun 63:9; at-Taghabun 64:14-15; at-Talaq 65:7; al-Qalam 68:14; Nuh 71:12,22; al-Mudathir 74:13; `Abasa 80:36

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