Female Infanticide and Foeticide in India
I wonder a land without girls-how would it be like? Every day, I come across one or the other news or video about girl child battling between life and death. Millions of Girls are killed before and after their birth before attaining one year in India. The main reason for the widespread female feticide and the continuing occurrence of female infanticide in different parts of India was the dowry system for payment of huge amount at the time of girls marriage to the groom and his family, which though prohibited through enactment of Dowry Prohibition Act 1961, continues to play a prominent role in Indian society. "Female infanticide is the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females." Will ever the problem of female infanticide be solved in our country? Is the question I ask and ask... With much development in science and technology we have become inhuman, My wonder is the incident is ...