Female foeticide: In modern India

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Female foeticide In modern India
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female feticide is Aborting a female fetus after
sex determination test.

• Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques includes
• Ultra-sonography,
• Foetoscopy,
• Amniocentesis and Taking samples of amniotic
  fluid, embryo, blood or any tissue or fluid of
  pregnant women after conception,

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FACTORS that FAVOUR..
Evil of Dowry
Social Security
Religion
Small Child Norm
URBAN Living
EDUCATIONAL STATUS
SOCIETY
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Evil of Dowry
It is estimated that a dowry death occurs in
India every 93 minutes.

• The practice of dowry ,a nationwide problem.
• Now found in communities and castes in which it
  had never been the custom.
• Inherited from upper caste practices. In
  majority of cases,
• Laws failed to show any impact on the practice of
  dowry.

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Evil of Dowry..

• In marriage the groom demanded that the brides
  father also provide for his daughters
  maintenance, since she was now a financial
  burden on him. And the system of dowry started.
  So, a girl became a potential financial drain on
  man
• As a matter of prestige too, more money and
  material goods asked in dowry.
• The girl was no longer desired.

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Social Security

• In order to continue possessing ones
  property, even after death, the need of an heir,
  a son, became necessary .

The birth of a son is regarded as essential in
Hinduism and many prayers and lavish offerings
are made in temples in the hope of having a male
child.
Son as Social Security for old age
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Religion helps ?.

• The Ramayana and the Manusmriti (the Laws of
  Manu) represent the ideal woman as obedient and
  submissive, and advocates care of a male first
  father, then husband, then son.

• Islam permits polygamy and gives women fewer
  rights than men.

Shame
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Small Child Norm

• Faced with social burdens rarely any one prefers
  to have more children.
• One or two is the norm of the day .
• For continuance of ones property, and gene, the
  need of an heir, a son, becomes necessary.
• Amniocentesis and sonography, widely available,
• Termination of pregnancy is simple and
  accessible.
• Female foeticide has become quite easy.
• Couple adopts evil It is better to spend Rs500
  now than Rs5,00000 (in dowry) later

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• The world population has a sex ratio of 990
  females per 1000 males
• Sex ratio
• Japan 1041
• USA 1029
• Indonesia 1004
• Bangladesh 953
• China 944
• India 933
• India has one of the lowest sex ratios in the
  world

WikiProject India Maps
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Source Census of India, 2001.
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RURAL VS URBAN
CHILD SEX ratio
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Sex Ratio (Females per 1000 males)
Sl. No. India / States / Union Territories   1991  2001
  INDIA 927 933
1 Jammu and Kashmir 896 900
2 Himachal Pradesh 976 970
3 Punjab 882 874
4 Chandigarh 790 773
5 Uttaranchal 936 964
6 Haryana 865 861
7 Delhi 827 821
8 Rajasthan 910 922
9 Uttar Pradesh 876 898
10 Bihar 907 921
11 Sikkim 878 875
12 Arunachal Pradesh 859 901
13 Nagaland 886 909
14 Manipur 958 978
15 Mizoram 921 938
16 Tripura 945 950
17 Meghalaya 955 975
18 Assam 923 932
19 West Bengal 917 934
20 Jharkhand 922 941
21 Orissa 971 972
22 Chhatisgarh 985 990
23 Madhya Pradesh 912 920
24 Gujarat 934 921
25 Daman Diu 969 709
26 Dadra Nagar Haveli 952 811
27 Maharashtra 934 922
28 Andhra Pradesh 972 978
29 Karnataka 960 964
30 Goa 967 960
31 Lakshadweep 943 947
32 Kerala 1036 1058
33 Tamil Nadu 974 986
34 Pondicherry 979 1001
35 Andaman Nicobar Islands 818 846

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FEMALE FOETICIDE INDIANS LIVING ABROAD

• Indians in other countries are going for sex
  selective abortions is evident by the fact that
  sex ratio at birth among the Indian community in
  New Jersey is as bad as in Punjab and Haryana.
• A report in the British Newspaper, 'observer',
  hand come up with evidence that British Asian
  women go to India to abort their baby girls. The
  British Law does not allow parents to choose sex
  of their babies except to avoid certain gender
  linked diseases. This forces many to go abroad.
  Abortion on the ground of sex is not allowed
  under the Abortion Act of 1967 in the UK. But sex
  can be disclosed by patients if they ask during
  ultrasound.

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Society today..

• It speaks of a whole Society that has gone
  corrupt, desiring destruction of half its
  population, Are we secular, social, and human?.In
  Modern India a woman is regarded as a commodity
  and marriage has become more of a business
  alliance than a sacred bond between two souls.