Essay On Female Infanticide

Tinotenda Muchenje
Brandord
Final Paper
5/23/14
Female Infanticide in India

Q: What do you get when you combine inadequate government control, gender bias and the oleander plant?
A: Dead female infants.
Not only does the oleander plant bear an effulgent, congenial and vibrant flower, but it also produces a milky sap that if ingested, can be a rather pernicious toxin. It is one of the many methods that families in India utilize to rid themselves of the social and economic encumbrance that comes with birthing a female infant. However, the killing of females solely based on their sex is not an infrequent phenomenon. Female Infanticide- the systematic homicide of female infants can be seen evident in both indigenous and sophisticated cultures around the world. Be that as it may, in India a most brutal form of killing females takes place regularly, even before they have the opportunity to be born. This practice can be recognized Feticide- the selective abortion of female fetuses.
Adding onto the to the dexterous disposals undergone in order to disencumber themselves from female infants shortly after birth, disdain and bigotry leading to death and sex-selective abortion are other ways by which many female children die each year. These circumstances are most predominant in patriarchal social orders in which females are devalued and a predilection for boys is incorporated within the developmental social ideologies. India is undergoing a female genocide. The primary cause as to why this occurrence does not jostle or provoke global advertence is because it is accomplished through abortion in oppose to killing the females post birth. In India, abortion in itself is a completely legal procedure and the latitudinarian a...

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...wer ratio among women tended to have a higher literacy rate.
Unfortunately, if the government does not take more action, it is possible that a population collapse may occur. With a fewer percentage of females, men will begin competing for women leading to acts of violence and those left without brides may be driven to suicidal tendencies. Given time, newer technologies will be made that will reveal more and more detailed information about the fetus that could in fact just be, that infants greatest demise. Because of the future advancements in technology to come, it is a moral obligation to put an end to the injustices of the silenced genocide of females in India. In order to do so, the government must implement laws that not only respect traditional values of the Indians, but also solve their economic and financial problems to end bias towards boys.