mercredi 21 octobre 2009

India : The missing girls


The population of India in the last decade is growing up very fast. But there is something strange about the new baby boom. There is way more boys then girls. Last year, experts estimates that 22 thousand girls that should have been born, simply doesnt exist. How many more are missing? Dr. Punit Bedi said: “The girls we seek aren’t missing at all, they were never born”. Before medical abortion became available, unwanted girls were killed after birth or they were not given enough food and medicine to survive. The gender selection is not a new phenomenon. Abortion is both legal and accessible but aborting a fetus because of his gender is not legal. The practice is an open secret, people don’t talk about it. Despite a law banning sex selective abortion in force for a decade, as many as a half of million female foetuses are aborted each year in India. Some village helps workers shows us the official numbers: “Total children are 53. There is 34 male and 19 female”. In a first grade classroom there is almost no girl. “The total 17 students in this class, only 4 are girls”. This is not the particular problem only for some districts. This is every where in the society in general. If the problem gets worst, it is the younger generation that will pay. The first problem they are going to face immediately is that some boy may not get married. And even if they get married and continue with this female infanticide and they only produce boys subsequently is that their sons will not get married. Then why do parents continue aborting girls? They do it because it’s practical. A boy will take care of is parents better when they get old and to carry on the family name than a women. Sex selection is also an economic reality. If the family is having a daughter, the government is asking a dowry.

Analysis: I think that this situation is bad. A population like India need women to continues making baby. A mother or a father should not want the death of is new kid. A parent need to take care of his children and give them everything they have. A life is so precious even it is cost money because money is just material and a life worth more than anything in a world.

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