In India foeticde, specially female foticide, and sex selection is
in worst condition. It tends to be a serious decline in sex ratio in many states of India. One side where we are promoting literacy in our country on other hand a stripe of well educated and financially strong people are found to be more involved in this heinous crime. However, the Govt. had banned to sex selection, but couples, who do not want to bear girl child, find the way anyhow. Also the practitioners easily get involved in this crime in greed of huge amount offered by parents as a bribe. It shows the clear picture of Indian male dominancy. Female are the backbone of a Nation. Without maternity existence of world is impossible. So why should we think to kill the generator of humanity.
Why people do not want to bear girl child? According to a Hindu myth to drive a dynasty existence of a son in family is necessary. People think bearing one girl child is enough or necessarily at least they should have one male child. With the fear of the second child not to be a girl they undergo the process of sex selection or pre-natal sex determination to confirm either it is girl or boy. They do not want to take any chance to have second girl child. In the previous years when technologies were not so advance and sex determination before birth was impossible, we can see, in India, many parents having 5 to 7 daughters. They did not stop production until a boy born. It means out of all the offspring the youngest one is a male child, it reveals the value of males in Indian society. The son is expected to look after his parents after growing up, he earn for them and give a backup of what parents had expended from him. In some parts of India boys are thought to be the source of a huge amount as dowry. On other hand educating a girl child does not reward parents, her earning benefits her husband family, and lifetime earning of parents goes in the hands of husband as dowry. So every effort done for girl child go vain.That’s naturally happens in Indian society. Giving birth to a girl child means parents will have to buy a groom for her when she grows to the age of marriage.
Unless parents stop looking at their children from the economic perspective, the bias against women will never go.
To combat this problem roots have to be cutted first. A fixed strategy is required nationalwide, for the removal of dowry system. Determined implementation of the antidowary act is necessary.