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Female Infanticide In India - College Term Papers

Female Infanticide In India


Infanticide was a topic that I was very emotional about. I could
never understand how a mother or father could kill an infant or child. It
would make my blood boil whenever I read or listened to a news story
involving the murder or abandonment of an infant. How could someone just
disregard a life they just brought into the world. A life they were to love
and care for. I know these feelings are from my heart and deeply rooted in
my upbringing and education, but after researching this topic I realize
there are many social, cultural and economic reasons that lead to the
practice of female infanticide in India. India

When Rani returned home from the hospital cradling her ...

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have given me a son.”(John Anderson, 1993, p. 6)

Each year thousands of newborn girls are murdered by their mothers
simply because they are female. Some women believe that sacrificing a
daughter guarantees a son in the next pregnancy. Because of the tremendous
preference for sons over daughters many females are abandoned or allowed
to die of starvation. Others cannot afford the dowry that would be demanded
for the girl’s marriage. For other mothers, killing a female infant is
better than letting it grow up in a society of discrimination, poverty,
and sickness. “Indian law bans infanticide and imposes penalties of life
imprisonment or death. However, few cases are brought to trial, especially
in rural areas, and those that do reach the courts seldom result in
conviction.”(Naomi Neft, Ann Levine, 1997, p. 307)

Sociologists and Indian government officials began documenting
sporadic examples of female infanticide 15 years ago. The practice of
killing newborn girls is ...

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Added: 5/7/2007 05:23:49 PM
Category: Social Issues
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