Baby girls in india

Babies are abandoned, for many reasons, in the UK too. Often, their mother is watching, from a distance, until she's sure they've been rescued.

It’s always tragic, you hear of babies and children being sold because their families have no money for food, mothers have to choose between giving up a child and feeding the rest of the children.
In many countries boys are regarded as future breadwinners, girls as future burdens to the family. Any woman that gives up a child has that pain wondering what happened to it for the rest of her life.

I wonder how many babies are abandoned because of their gender, disabilities, skin colour, etc but not because of the parents, it is the family pressure forcing them to do that

I forgot to mention in my post above that my husband's friend told him the baby girl was purposely left to die because of her sex. The family did not want female babies.

Many years ago when I was teenager I knew a girl my age who was an immigrant from India. She told me how she wanted 11 children, all boys. I can remember asking her why - in shock at the thought of having 11 sons. She told me that boys look after you financially when you're old and girls are just a burden.

Not necessarily true. When I was in Bangladesh I was asked if my son was married. I said that he wasn't and they were shocked. 'But who will look after you when you are old if you don't have a daughter in law?' Women can be useful in that respect as well as bringing in goods and cash from their families too. A gender balanced family is ideal.

I nursed a young Indian woman in the 70s, a regular patient, whom her husband deemed a useless woman. His reason, his wife repeatedly miscarried. Although medically advised to let his wife have sufficient healing time before trying for another baby, the young woman told me he would not allow her time to heal but continue using her until she gave him a son. She was desperately unhappy but had to obey their religious rules.

What a heartbreaking indictment that a baby will only be welcomed into a family depending on its monetary gain. ?

And think of all the “legal” abortions in the western world ..

It is possible that the longtime outcome of the killing of baby girls has led to the high incidence of rape in India.

Many men cannot marry, there is such a shortage of women as a result of the killing........

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Rape is about power, not male/female ratio