In india, pakistan, china and africa …the practice of Female Infanticide/foeticide, where the female fetus is aborted or the female infant is killed, continue to this day.
Why do you think such practices continue to this day? and What are the implications of this practice?
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The implication, as you might have guessed it, is that the sex ratio in population will become unequal. In China (due to one child policy) and India the female population is considerably less than males. As a result the present and coming generations of men in these country will struggle to find mates.
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not that much in pakistan.
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i think our society considers girls as liabilities while sons as assets. we think that to raise a girl and get her married will be very difficult and economically draining. it's our thinking that translates into our actions.
there must be strict laws that are applied universally across the board and the violators punished severely. ABORTING FETUS must be treated same as MURDER...PERIOD!!!!
Re: What are the implications of Female Infanticide/foeticide
The implication, as you might have guessed it, is that the sex ratio in population will become unequal. In China (due to one child policy) and India the female population is considerably less than males. As a result the present and coming generations of men in these country will struggle to find mates.
indeed! but what should be done about it why do you think it happens and so what if there are more men than women?
not that much in pakistan.
what makes you so sure? :p
i think our society considers girls as liabilities while sons as assets. we think that to raise a girl and get her married will be very difficult and economically draining. it's our thinking that translates into our actions.
there must be strict laws that are applied universally across the board and the violators punished severely. ABORTING FETUS must be treated same as MURDER...PERIOD!!!!
what else could be done?
i think educating the public... and maybe governments can have incentives for giving birth to female children like every household below the poverty line that has a female child will get some cash amount placed in a trust fund for the girl's education and/or marriage
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i think educating the public... and maybe governments can have incentives for giving birth to female children like every household below the poverty line that has a female child will get some cash amount placed in a trust fund for the girl's education and/or marriage
yes but Lexy hamaare mulkoN meN ta'leem kaa koi asar nahiiN hotaa...un par to bas DanDe kaa asar hotaa hai...DanDa sar pe na paRe varna vo aadii ho jaayeNge is liye DanDa paRne kaa bas Khauf rahe.
India meN jab Indira Gandhi ne Emergency lagaaii to Haalaat mulk ke andar bahoooot Theek ho gaye the to kisii ne Indira se poochhaa k aap Emergency continue rakkheN kiuN k mulk ko isse baRaa faaida ho rahaa hai...to, unhoN ne jawaab meN yehii kahaa k "emergency means emergency...agar iskii logoN ko aadat paR gaii to phir sab kuchh vaisa hii ho jaayegaa...emergency meN jo Dar thaa logoN ke diloN meN vohii Dar rahnaa chaahiye."
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indeed! but what should be done about it why do you think it happens and so what if there are more men than women?
what makes you so sure? :p
what else could be done?
i think educating the public... and maybe governments can have incentives for giving birth to female children like every household below the poverty line that has a female child will get some cash amount placed in a trust fund for the girl's education and/or marriage
Talk about unintended consequences. Folks will start aborting sons. This is a complex problem that is solved by education. Mainly women need to be educated. And that is why Malala 's efforts are Nobel prize worthy.
As for punishment for Abortion, nothing could be more asinine. Infanticide punishment? Sure. Abortion? That is choice, which I guided by education.
This thread may now be closed.
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Talk about unintended consequences. Folks will start aborting sons. This is a complex problem that is solved by education. Mainly women need to be educated. And that is why Malala 's efforts are Nobel prize worthy.
As for punishment for Abortion, nothing could be more asinine. Infanticide punishment? Sure. Abortion? That is choice, which I guided by education.
This thread may now be closed.
Why being so talibani??
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Why being so talibani??
Because I said so, Mr. Mard.
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Permission to reopen thread granted.
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Mr. Mard, where you be?
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More than finding mates, continuous female infanticide is going to create a greater problem : safety for women for the next generations.
As it is men in the Asian sub-continent have no control over themselves. With less women out there for men , there are going to be more cases of rape , sexual harassment, kidnapping for marriage, forceful prostitution and god knows what.
People are all the more going to be scared to have daughters in the future.
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^^this is what i call thinking beyond the present...payal there is a hindi movie addressing this problem
I wonder if anyone has seen the movie matrubhoomi...(from wikipedia) The film examines the impact of female foeticide and female infanticide on the gender balance, and consequently the stability and attitudes of society.
The film begins in a rural village in Bihar with the delivery of a baby girl to a village couple. Her disappointed father, who was hoping for a boy, drowns her in vat of milk in a public ceremony. Many years later somewhere around 2050 AD this unchecked trend leads to the village being populated solely by males. The now uncouth and aggressive young men of the village are desperate for wives and release their frustration through group screenings of imported pornographic films, cross-dressed dance performances, and even bestiality. They are shown to be willing to go to the lengths of human trafficking and courtship-driven emigration in order to procure spouses for themselves.
The wealthy father Ramcharan of five boys finds out about a single young woman, named Kalki, living some distance from the village, and literally buys her from her father. She is then married to all five sons. Each night of the week, she is forced to sleep with one of the sons, and the father also gets his weekly night with her. Of all the men in the boorish lot, only the youngest son treats her with respect and tenderness.
When the youngest son is killed by his jealous brothers, and an escape attempt with a sympathetic domestic servant goes lethally awry, she becomes a pawn of revenge in an inter-community conflict, and an unwilling object of sexual release for even more men. She is chained to a post in the cow shed and gang raped mercilessly night after night. The film ends on a violent but hopeful note, as she bears a baby girl while the men of the village kill each other off over rights to her and her child.
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I did.
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In india, pakistan, china and africa ...the practice of Female Infanticide/foeticide, where the female fetus is aborted or the female infant is killed, continue to this day.
Why do you think such practices continue to this day? and What are the implications of this practice?
In North India this is more common. Female pooulation trending lower. In Kerala, female population is higher than male population. The difference? Kerala is one of the or the most educated States in India. Including women. So key is to recognize the root of the problem. And address it. Educate, educate, educate.
In the Malala Nobel Prize thread you expressed bewilderment at her being considereed for the Nobel prize. Several expressed similar sentiments. Here is an example - you want killing of girls to go down? Educate the girls and women along with boys and men.
I was surprised you did not get that. This thread you opened gave me an opportunity to drive that point home. Look forward to your response.
Respectfully.
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Mr. Mard, back me up man!