Female infanticide
According to Guardian, the number of girl foetuses that are killed every year has slowly but surely reached the 0.5 million mark in our country. It’s shocking to see that in this day and age so many parents choose to abort the child if it is found to be a girl in a pre-natal sex determination test (which by the way is illegal)
Most shocking is the following line:
In households where the mother had better education, it was significantly more likely that the birth of a girl would not be followed by the birth of another girl.
Check out the rest on Guardian Unlimited.
