Culture pressure to give birth son affects to the ratio of population that lack of balance between men and women. It is an important social issue that goes in traditional cultures as you can see in the article “India's unwanted girls” on the BBC News (2011).
According to the news, female abortion remain common in India, although sex-selective abortion based on ultrasound scans is illegal. Sons are still seen by many as wage-earners for the future. The census also reveals a continuing preference for boys and India's sex ratio is at its worst since independence. Even though these states have registered numbers much higher than the national average, the decline is too substantial to ignore.
I'm surprised that it's possibly happening with women who are living in India in which the census show serious decline the number of female fetuses may have been aborted because they want sons instead. It might be that the parents feel the pressure to have sons because of culture or background as their own traditions. I think it is the real horror for Indian women and morally wrong to kill girls. This cultural attitudes need to change. People should think equality that is possible and reasonable between men and women because they are both human, with similar soul, brain, heart and so on; therefore, women should get opportunity equal with men.
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Reference
India's unwanted girls. (2011, May 23). BBC News. Retrieved May 24, 2011 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13264301
If abortion is morally OK, why would it then be morally wrong to decide to abort on the basis of the sex of the child? Parents want intelligent kids, or happy kids, or healthy kids, or tall kids or whatever, and since abortion is one way of realising those wishes, why would it be wrong to use it to choose the sex of your child but not anything else?
ReplyDeleteI think that Kukik's response to the article she has summarized is very well thought out. I'm looking forward to the responses to her clearly stated and well supported ideas.
P'Kukik
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to change Indian attude because they are conservative. They are also force their daughters to get married at the early age. These are terrible things that should not exist our world.
Pree,
ReplyDeleteI agree - a lot of traditional cultures are immoral and should be changed. Forcing women to marry, at any age, is one example of a very bad cultural tradition.
Although it's popular, I think it's a dangerously wrong idea to think that all cultures or traditions are equally good - they are not. There is good and bad in every culture, and it's better to get rid of the bad, and that starts by doing what you did in your comment - saying that it is bad.
Kukik
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. India is having poverty problem, maybe this is one reason why they don’t want to keep daughter. Female is a symbol of losing money especially if a girl was born in poor family, they will be worried how they can prepare money for their daughter when she wants to get marry. As we know, parents have to pay for dowery to the groom. The belief in bad culture is killing lots of innocent life now.
I agree with Kuriko, the parents must feel the pressure of their culture, they have to see the differences between woman and man instead to see the equalities Kuriko mentions. Maybe also is it a real inequality in the work field in India? The man has more opportunities of employment, a better job, or in some work sectors like in the countryside where the physical force of a man is more valuable than the physical force of a woman! Anyway, in some years India has to have women immigration politic or woman polygamy, many men of a woman! A paradise for woman?
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