mercredi, 04 avril 2007

Imbalance in sex ratio to India

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Dear Tony,

Today I write about the imbalance in gender ratio to India . Unicef estimates that 7,000 fewer girls are born in India every day than the global average sex ratio of births would suggest. Traditional attitudes ally modern technical make this result. India ’s value system was elevating boys over girls. Couples use the ultrasound scan that reveals the sex of the foetus and abort if it’s a girl. This phenomenon becomes sharpest in India ’s richest districts. Sex determination tests of unborn babies are illegal to India . But government and police don’t have the resources to enforce the law. So India is inability to stem the widespread practice of female foeticide. In March government has announced a nationwide network of orphanages for girls. It’s a good short-term measure and it wakes up to this disaster in India ’s demography. But India searches a long term measure. Some people say that the new law encourages parents to abandon female infants.

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