The latest Unicef report published yesterday has this statistics
Each day Indian mothers kill 7000 female foetuses!
In the last 20 years, India has lost 10 million unborn girls( Lancet)
Isn't it ironic, a female mother, killing a female baby, because she thinks her female child would be a liability?
Shame on you Indian women.. Oh and don't tell me you were forced to abort by your mother in law or your husband or the neighbour next door..
The baby was in your womb, safe and sound.. you need to give the consent for someone to take her out.. and only you can give that consent..
Shame on you Indian women.. and I thought education would change your attitudes!
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Are you against abortions altogether? Or just against aborting female foetuses alone? Reading your post I got an impression that female chauvinistic feelings prompted your post..
perhaps, before jumping the gun, you should read the entire blog!
I am an indian male, meaning on the "right" side of the divide, I feel only sympathy for those women forced to kill their own children.
Can you tell me your comments on a book that you have not read? Just like that you have not the inkling about the type of life these women lead.
It is easy for you to sit in front of a computer and write trash and judge others. Just put yourself in their shoes,
1) as u pointed out no education, 2) a batterred or non-existant self esteem.
3) Programmed from day one of their life to obey, to feel inferior to the male child etc etc.
would you have acted differently if you were born under these circumstances?, maybe, chances are few!!
Silver lining is, these past few years, things have been changing, and changing fast.
Abraham: I never make a comment on a book that I haven't read.
How Do you know I have no inkling of the life of women who kill thier daughters?
I have worked in India, both in the urban and rural areas. I know how the system works.
I do not sit in front of my computer to trash others. I write, so people can read and think( instead of assuming that it didn't happen in my backyard, so it wouldn't be happening in my community)
Yes I did put myself in their shoes, that is why I sponsor the education of three girls in India.
I was born under very much the same circumstances. My mother was forced to carry four babies, hoping that one would be a boy. She didn't kill any of us.
I am a mother of TWO wonderful girls. I never felt the need to kill either of them..I cherish my children.
This paper gives you glimpse of what is actually happening with education and female infanticide.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2006/1560763.htm
I don't know what exactly to write here. When I say I understand your anguish, that does not mean that I can feel that in the same intensity; but at least I know it is beyond what I can comprehend.
But there are a few things that is to be noted, e.g., Education. The Indian women as a whole is not better educated than they were even decades above, if you consider certain valid points. The percentage may have slightly gone up. But if you take the population growth rate, we have only added millions into the uneducated class (the addtion to the educated class was slightly higher than in past; that does not make the others better)
Social situation: Still pathetic. The society as a whole is more responsible than the mother for the killings. What would a mother prefer? Killing the child before it is born or bearing the brunt of the family and the society, letting the child suffer all their wrath and malnourishment and dejection, make them work-machines, have them sold to strangers for a paltry sum and then exploited sexually, physically, and demeaned to the lowest level possible. Those who manage to escape will go through the same life as their mothers.
I would suggest you to watch the Hindi movie Matrubhumi if you have the stomach to see it, that is. Yes, it may be exaggerated but not very far from facts.
If you are interested in movies and if you can understand Malayalam or find a copy with subtitles, watch the movie 'Sadayam', just to see how sometimes there are other sides for seemingly cold-blooded murders.
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