遗弃罪是指负有扶养义务的人,对年老、年幼、患病或者其他没有独立生活能力的人拒绝扶养,情节恶劣的行为.最高人民法院、最高人民检察院、公安部《关于执行刑事诉讼法规定的案件管辖范围的通知》(以下简称《通知》)中规定:遗弃案件属人民法院直接受理管辖的八类自诉案件之一.该《通知》根据当时被遗弃对象主要是老弱病残的有行为能力的成年人而制定的,在当时是基本可行的.但是,自从把计划生育政策列为我国一项基本国策后,政策规定一对夫妻只能生育一个孩子,一些重男轻女,生子传宗接代的封建思想较严重的人,为了达到既能生育男孩,又要逃避行政处罚的目的,便采取遗弃女婴的手段,逃避计划生育,逃避行政、经济制裁.近年来,在一些民政所也时常见到被遗弃的女婴.家庭成员被遗弃对象过去主要是老弱病残 Abandonment is defined as the obligation to support the people, the elderly, young, sick or other people who do not have the ability to independently refuse to support, the circumstances of the bad behavior of the Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuratorate, Ministry of Public Security "on the implementation of criminal The Notice of Jurisdiction of Cases stipulated in the Procedural Law stipulates: The abandonment case is one of eight categories of private prosecution cases directly handled by the people’s court, which is based on the fact that the objects that were abandoned at that time were mainly old and sick Disabled adults with behavioral abilities, it was basically feasible at that time.However, since the family planning policy was listed as one of China’s basic national policies, the policy stipulated that a couple should have only one child and some patriarchal children In order to achieve the goal of giving birth to boys and avoiding administrative penalties, those who passed away their sons and daughters of the deceased’s family have adopted the means of abandoning their baby girls to escape from family planning and evade administrative and economic sanctions. In recent years, Abandoned baby girls are also often seen in the past.