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Shedding light on Gender-infanticide...

This is beyond disgusting. I cannot understand how a father can do this.

https://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/14/world/asia/india-female-infanticide/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Some excerpts from the article...

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"After my delivery my husband had come to see me and the baby. He said, 'It is a girl, why did you give birth to a girl?'"
He wanted a boy, an heir. Girls were too expensive, he said. A couple of days after giving birth, Banu says her husband gave an ultimatum.

"For her wedding we will require a hundred thousand rupees (about US$1,800 dollars) for all the expense. If you can get that amount from your mother, then keep her, but if you can't, then kill her," Reshma recalled her husband as saying.

She didn't believe he meant it and was sure he would change his mind once he held his soft, bright-eyed baby girl.

Three months later, her baby is dead, and her husband under arrest accused of beating the baby to death. Police say he confessed to the killing.
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Moreover, a girl's family can go broke trying to pay a dowry to get her married. Although outlawed in India, dowries are still common and take different forms throughout society.

Indian law also forbids doctors to tell a couple the sex of their child after an ultrasound, but many clinics break the law and do so anyway.

India has made an effort across the country to stop female infanticide.

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We have a long thread on a father who killed a man to defend his daughter. This story is completely different.... :(
 
It must suck to be a teenage boy in India. How are you suppose to get laid when boys outnumber girls 4:1?
 
It must suck to be a teenage boy in India. How are you suppose to get laid when boys outnumber girls 4:1?

Where did you get that number...

The 2011 census showed that for every 1,000 boys six years or younger there were only 914 girls. It is the lowest child sex ratio since India's independence in 1947.

A 4:1 ration would collapse the population after one generation. It would be like an inverted "last man alive" skit... I prefer In Living Color's!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Q8DqtfHk0
 
He's probably not that far off as far as being on the street and noticable in my experiences there. It's probably even higher than that. Just one big sweaty hot mess where you rub up against about 1,000 guys that smell like cow **** a day .

I have zero tolerance for anything that has do with infanticide or abortion though so I hate reading stuff like this. Just all seems like pure evil to me.

I feel ya. This was one of the few articles on CNN that shows the evil decisions that happen all the time. I simply cannot comprehend how a father can just kill his child. I've never been to India, or China (another country that is gender imbalanced), so I didn't know how self evident the problem is by just walking the streets.
 
$1800 dowry? Are Indian men gay like Romans "who didn't know it until 1869"? Aishwarya damn! Bollywood actresses are hot.
 
Where did you get that number...

The 2011 census showed that for every 1,000 boys six years or younger there were only 914 girls. It is the lowest child sex ratio since India's independence in 1947.

A 4:1 ration would collapse the population after one generation. It would be like an inverted "last man alive" skit... I prefer In Living Color's!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Q8DqtfHk0


Just a hyperbole statement.
 
I feel ya. This was one of the few articles on CNN that shows the evil decisions that happen all the time. I simply cannot comprehend how a father can just kill his child. I've never been to India, or China (another country that is gender imbalanced), so I didn't know how self evident the problem is by just walking the streets.

The worst thing is that it says he beat the baby to death. I can see maybe like throwing it off a building, or something like that, but the image of someone just punching a baby to death is just ****ed up.
 
The worst thing is that it says he beat the baby to death. I can see maybe like throwing it off a building, or something like that, but the image of someone just punching a baby to death is just ****ed up.

What the **** is wrong with you?
 
What the **** is wrong with you?

What? I'm just saying I can see a person doing that who didn't want the baby. Not saying I would do it, or I could see myself doing it. It's just an easy way to kill something without as much emotional connection. Picturing someone just punching a baby while looking at it is just weird to me.
 
The worst thing is that it says he beat the baby to death. I can see maybe like throwing it off a building, or something like that, but the image of someone just punching a baby to death is just ****ed up.

I don't know if you were trying to be funny, but this post had me rolling.
 
I don't know if you were trying to be funny, but this post had me rolling.

I didnt laugh until I read yours and reread his. Thanks for ruining a sad thread and making me laugh hard.

I also cant get over having to pay to marry off your daughter. With the ratios of having more men I would think they would be paying to get a good looking women or even a women for that matter. If I was single I would be looking for the hottest women and offer her family to marry her for free and 3 free lunches when the deal is sealed.

I hope they still allow people to be stoned to death for beating a baby to death in that country. I would gladly be poor for the rest of my life and forced to be a gay prostitute (since most of the men in India secretly want to have sex with men apparently) then to lose my own baby at 3 months old.
 
I wonder if everyone here is just as incensed by the increase of sex-selected abortion here in the US?
 
I wonder if everyone here is just as incensed by the increase of sex-selected abortion here in the US?

I am personally againt abortion ( exclusions for rape, incest, life endangerment) but I believe women have that right...

However sex-selective abortions are an abomination. That is just messed up. Right up there with partial birth abortions to me.
 
I am personally againt abortion ( exclusions for rape, incest, life endangerment) but I believe women have that right...

However sex-selective abortions are an abomination. That is just messed up. Right up there with partial birth abortions to me.

Agree 100%
 
I wonder if everyone here is just as incensed by the increase of sex-selected abortion here in the US?

You have evidence for such an increase? How do you determine whether an abortion is sex-selected?

The original post is certainly a sad reminder of our history that we are trying to shake off.
 
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