The article focuses on gender emancipation and the unawareness of few desperate parents particularly in India and China clandestinely opt for foeticide and infanticide in other words a Sex-selective abortion, and female infanticide.
The modern medical gadget more frequently used is ultrasound and amniocentesis, an analysis of amniotic liquor of pregnant women. However, its application is losing ground. These devices detect the fetus male or female. Some unscrupulous medical person reveal the female gender to the pregnant, resulting in Foeticide. The laws are strict but malpractice continue.
Unwed pregnant either abort or abandon the born infant. In most cases the medically unaffordable would-be-mothers, decide on the quacks, jeopardizing the life of both mother and infant.
The preference for a male child or trepidation over female is mostly based on cultural norms, poverty, and prevalence of expensive marriage system, mismatching boys to educated girls, dowry menace, and fear of eloping daughters on romance and male dominance. It is believed that marriages emanating from romance are unstable in most cases. Though the state of affairs is changing in urban locales, the rural and orthodox families are glued to ancestral cultures.
“Here is news to relate the entire article how the foeticide and infanticides are augmented for mere fear of certain unwanted societal customs.
“On February 4, 1988 three, unmarried sisters, Poonam, Kamini and Alka committed suicide in Kapur. Their suicide note made it clear that the three girls aged 22, 20 and 18 were forced to take this drastic step to relieve their low-income parents of the burden of dowry that had prevented them from negotiating a matches for any of them. In the same year, probably inspired by the headline-grabbing story, four sisters in Kerela also put an end to their lives prematurely. Two years later, in 1990, the three daughters of another couple in Nagpur who could not afford to meet dowry demands, killed themselves. More recently in 2000, four sisters living in Bihlai made news again for dowry deaths. All these cases prove that even in the 21st century, the social evil that our Indian Constitution has tried so hard to eradicate continues to plague middle-class homes”
Worshipping goddesses in India is invariably known. Wrath of Kali, Durga is not uncommon. She is also known as “Parasakthi” as “omnipotent”. Sita, wife of Ram was born to the earth as “Bhoo Devi”. A giant battle was fought to rescue her from Ravana. Nevertheless, it is pity that such a holy gender is too humiliated with “family bond” her being succumbed to family chores and male to distinguished and privileged rank. The equality between two genders is dissipated because of discrimination.
As per the 2001 census of India, the ration between male and female is 1000:933. Punjab has 1000:790.
There is an interesting reading a book “Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male population” by Valerie M.Hudson, Andrea Den Boer (The MIT Press).The authors warn the great imbalance in the sex ratio, and they present “comprehensive data on sex ratios and fascinating historical studies of social instability brought on by excess young males.”
One of the bloggers says that this book “warns that the spread of sex selection in India — and China — is giving rise to a generation of restless young men who will not find mates. “History, biology, and sociology all suggest that these surplus males will generate high levels of crime and social disorder,” the authors say. “Even worse,” they continue, “is the possibility that the governments of India and China will build up huge armies in order to provide a safety valve for the young men’s aggressive energies.”
Unless the society does not understand that female child is also great gift of Nature, with all the faculties of male, the rate female sex go down in an epidemic manner if killing of female fetus and femal infant continues and males will dominate female in promiscuously in all respect.
