We hear and read about female foeticide in remote areas of our country which is an evil
practice. In some areas, females are tortured for giving birth to a girl child.
Take up a
project and find out the causes behind this evil practice and the measures to uproot this
wrongful practice from our society.
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Answer:
Female foeticide is a curse in today’s India, especially in rural areas. The frequency of female foeticide in India is increasing day by day.
Why people hate girl child? The irony is even elderly women hate girl child. They do not realize one thing, that they too were born as a girl child and became women as they get aged. But totally forget everything and straightaway hate girl children.
Female foeticide is a symptom of an underlying malady. Its incidence is increasing as families perceive that bearing daughters does not make economic sense and does not provide any social advantages. Added to that is generations of bias that favours bearing a male child.
This is evident from the declining sex ratio which has dropped to alarming levels, especially in the northern states according to Census 2001 reports. The proliferation and abuse of advanced technologies coupled with social factors contributing to the low status of women such as dowry, concerns with family name and looking up to the son as a breadwinner has made the evil practice of female foeticide to become common in the middle and higher socioeconomic households, especially in the northern states, followed by some southern states in recent times.