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Thread ID: 10669 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-10-22
2003-10-22 19:34 | User Profile
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Sex ratio in India a concern
October 21 2003 at 09:09AM
New Delhi - A disturbing and steady decline has occurred in the ratio between Indian girls to boys born in the past decade, according to a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report published on Tuesday.
Several thousand girls and women are "missing", the UNFPA study said, referring to those who should have been part of the population but are not because they were killed for being female.
In both rural and urban India, there is a strong preference for boys. One Indian saying goes: "Nurturing a girl is like watering someone else's garden."
Girls are thought to be a burden on their parents, and are usually given less food and little or no education. Parents do not invest in their daughters' health and development, as they will eventually get married and leave home.
'When girls go missing in a society, it shows that compassion is missing' In 1991, there were 945 girls born for every thousand boys in India. By 2001, the national average dropped to 927 girls, the Indian Express newspaper reported.
According to UNFPA, among the main causes for the adverse sex ratio are increasing rates of female foeticide. Indian states with alarmingly low sex ratios are Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh in the north and Gujarat in the west - all with less than 800 girls on an average for every thousand boys.
Development experts ..................
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"The practice is so widespread that we don't kill cats and dogs as we destroy female children," the Indian Express quoted an unidentified private doctor as saying."
2003-10-22 21:24 | User Profile
At least the custom of [I]suttee[/I]-burning a dead man's wife alive in his funeral pyre-seems to have declined. :smoke: I say give 'em a few more centuries to catch up.
2003-10-24 16:14 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Maximillian]At least the custom of [I]suttee[/I]-burning a dead man's wife alive in his funeral pyre-seems to have declined. :smoke: I say give 'em a few more centuries to catch up.[/QUOTE]
As long as they are under the demonic force of hindism, they will never catch up. I see trouble in the future with both China and India with an excessive male population. In history, populations with male excess tend to go on the warpath. The leaders in these countries will start wars to keep the excess male population ocuppied. We may see increases of white female-male Indian couplings stateside.