For India's daughters, a dark birth day

[MisterMike]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2327&e=4&u=/csm/cgirls

Nearly 60 percent of girls born in Salem District are killed within three days of birth, according to the local social welfare department. That doesn't count the growing number of abortions there to ensure a girl baby won't be carried to term.

 

[Zepp]

This paragraph seemed most pertinent to me:

Infanticide is illegal in India (though never prosecuted), and laws are also in place to stop sex- selective abortions. But in some places, national rules don't hold enough sway to overcome local religious and social customs - which remain biased in favor of sons over daughters.

History repeating itself. Another country reaches a certain level of population density, an the answer seems to be to have less girls, and get rid of the ones they do have. :idunno: The question is: do we go about trying to change centuries (or millenia) of social stigma that's been ingrained into a culture?

 

[theletch1]

China has done the same for time out of memory. The question isn't DO we go about change but rather HOW do we go about beginning the change.

 

[Zepp]

China has done the same for time out of memory. The question isn't DO we go about change but rather HOW do we go about beginning the change.

Typo on my part. :uhyeah: I meant use "how."

 

[Feisty Mouse]

This paragraph seemed most pertinent to me:


History repeating itself. Another country reaches a certain level of population density, an the answer seems to be to have less girls, and get rid of the ones they do have. :idunno: The question is: do we go about trying to change centuries (or millenia) of social stigma that's been ingrained into a culture?

It's not necessarily because of the population density - different cultures/civilzations have left unwanted babies - often female - out to die of exposure, etc.