India’s lost female generation
Selective termination of pregnancy on the basis of sex has been illegal in India since 1994 however numbers of girls in India has been steadily falling for the past 20 years relative to the number of boys. Selective termination was made illegal thirteen years ago, there are a reported 10 million girls missing in India and only one doctor has been convicted of carrying out the crime.
Many families believe that their family will be unbalanced without an heir, someone to carry on the bloodline, the name and to look after their parents when they become old. If a girl marries the parents must pay a dowry to the other family, for example if you had three daughters and they all married, it would cost the parents a great deal of money whilst their in-laws feel the financial benefits. This used to leads to parents killing their baby if it was female whereas now in modern society doctors can find out the sex of the baby and have it terminated if it’s......
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