:) 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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Explanation:
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.
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.
Despite the existence of the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act, there is a dire need to strengthen this law since the number of convictions is despairingly low as compared to the burden posed by this crime.
The preference for a son continues to be a prevalent norm in the traditional Indian household. Parents also give too much importance to a boy child, groom him by giving all attention, all facilities thinking that they would take care of them when they get aged. Now the reality is most of such boys once they attain manhood and when they settled in life with lots of wealth and other facilities totally forget their parents and go away with their wive and kids to lead an independent life.
Ancient Indian Vedic texts gave importance to the worship of goddesses. A woman was referred to as “saamraajini”, the queen or mistress of the home, who was to have an equal share in the performance of religious rites. Manu, the law giver said, “The gods are satisfied wherever women are honoured, but where they are not respected, rites and prayers are ineffectual” (Manusmriti 3.62).
Even today one can witness and see a number of temples specifically built only for women deities. In Tamil Nadu those temples are called ‘amman’ temples, in Telugu belt, those temples are called ‘ammavaru’ temples, in Kerala such women specific temples are called ‘bagawathi’ temples and so on and so forth in different states all over India.
There are also specific Women Deity Hindu festivals like Navaratri, which is celebrated a whole 9 days and 9 nights. Everyone knows about the world famous Navratri Festival of Mysuru, India.
But when it comes to bearing a child, everyone wants and prays and some do specific homa (Homa is a Sanskrit word that refers to a ritual, wherein an oblation or any religious offering is made into the fire.) too that only boy child should be given birth. I do not understand the dirty logic behind this expectation.
The bias against females in India is grounded in cultural, economic and religious roots. Sons are expected to work in the fields, provide greater income and look after parents in old age. In this way, sons are looked upon as a type of insurance. In addition, in a patriarchal society, sons are responsible for the “preservation” of the family name. Also, as per Hindu belief, lighting the funeral pyre by a son is considered necessary for the salvation of the spirit. This strong preference for sons which results in a life-endangering deprivation of daughters.
Another important evil practice, which is very much prevalent even today in many parts of India is that giving dowry to a groom from girl’s side is the biggest problem for poor families and also it is an idiotic practice. As a result, daughters are considered to be an economic liability. The dowry system is more rigid in the northern states of India, and now slowly spread across even in some South Indian cities, town and villages. Women have little control over economic resources and the best way for a young Indian bride to gain domestic power mainly comes from their ability to produce children, in particular, sons. Most often in south Indian communities, marriages are not exogamous (but often consanguineous), and married daughters usually stay close socially and geographically to their original family.
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