write a big note on female foeticide.
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Female foeticide is in practice in India from the time of advent of technological advancements in medical field like prenatal sex determination in the 1990s. However, earlier to this, female childs were killing after their birth in many regions of the country. In the Indian society, female childs are considered as the social and economic burden to their parents so they understand that it is better to kill them before birth. No one understands its negative aspect in the future. The female sex ratio in comparison to the males has been reduced to a great extent (8 males per one female). It is not easy to compensate the sex ratio even if we stop female foeticide completely in the next few years
Foeticide (or feticide) is the destruction or abortion of a fetus. Female feticide would be the destruction or abortion of a female fetus.\
Return on Investment(ROI)
Female Foeticide is very common in rural regions. It is now reducing drastically in urban areas. This is the mentality of people in uneducated parts of India- A girl child is a liability and a boy is an asset in the eyes of an Indian parent.
This can be seen by one of its consequences- female foeticide. The biggest responsibility any Indian parent have after a girl is born is to start saving for her marriage. Even if they wish not to due to societal pressures they are forced to.
In villages , parents don’t spend on their daughters education so that they can save for her dowry. It is true that dowry system has diminished in the recent years. But it continues in a different form in urban cities.
Let me delineate the situation:
When a girl is born to parents in an urban city parents have to spend for her education – schooling fee, College fee, Food, All other luxuries. This is pretty much the same as that spent for a boy. No discrimination or privilege.
But when it comes to marriage, they need to save up some dowry for her. Dowry is used as a barter to buy a ‘well qualified’ groom.
Dowry is no longer asked directly, but given by parents in order to Provide security for their daughter
A tie breaker in getting a nice groom for their daughter Establish status
In addition to providing her education, they need to save for dowry and seer (things parents have to give for setting up her household after marriage).
As far as a boy is concerned, they provide him education, he can work for 4 years after his college and he has the opportunity to pay back to his parents by working. Whereas a girl is either married off early.
There is no return (ROI), but they have to make up their minds that a huge investment has to be made when a girl is born. Others who can’t just do this go for female foeticide
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