FEMALE INFANTICIDE IN INDIA

FEMALE INFANTICIDE: MEANING

 Female infanticide is the practice of intentionally
killing of female infants due to valuing male
children over female children.

Female infanticide is more common than killing

of male babies due to sex selective infanticide.
IN ANCIENT HISTORY:
 Child sacrifice, the ritualistic killing of children
in order to please supernatural beings was far
more common in ancient history than in present
times.
IN PRESENT DAY:
Most of the Asian countries practice female
infanticide like China, Japan, south Asia, India
and also in many parts of Africa.
IN INDIA:

 RURAL AREAS
 ILLEGAL
 UNICEF: a) 50 million girls are
missing
b) sex-discrimination
 Fewer girl children than expected
 Use of ultrasound to determine
the sex of a fetus- illegal
FACTORS INFLUENCING FEMALE INFANTICIDE:

 Socio-economic
reasons
 Sex-selection
 Socio-cultural
utility
 Religious functions
HOW THEY PRACTICE FEMALE INFANTICIDE:

 DROWNING
 SHARP-JERK
 BURY
 SEX
SELECTIVE
ABORTION
DECREASING RATE OF FEMALE SEX RATIO:
 10 million female fetuses aborted over the past 20 years in India.
 This is extrapolated on the basis of reduction of female to male
sex ratio from 945 per 1000 in 1991 to 745 per 1000 in 2001.
 The ratio is even lower in cases where a couple has had a previous
daughter and no sons, dropping it to 650per 1000 for the second
child if the first was a daughter.
 And 550 per 1000 for a third child if the first two were daughters.
“DEVDA VILLAGE IN JAISALMER AWAITS SECOND
‘BARAAT’ IN 120 YEARS”- THE TIMES OF INDIA
 Rajput village,Devda earned notoriety for the very
high incidence of female infanticide.
 The only time a ‘Baraat’ came to devda was in
1998 and again after 10 years in 2008.
 There has been centuries old reprehensible custom
in this village of killing the girl child.
 But 29 years ago, Inder singh bhati and his wife
decided to go against the wishes of the community
that their baby girl will live.
CAMPAIGNS ON FEMALE INFANTICIDE AND FETICIDE

 SILENT DEMONSTRATION IN GWALIOR-

FEBRUARY 20,2010.
 POWERFUL CAMPAIGN ON FEMALE INFANTICIDE
AND FETICIDE LAUNCHED IN PUNJAB BY AN
NGO,UNIVERSAL PUBLIC SERVICE
ORGANISATION- APRIL 21,2008.
 22 ACTORS OF THE MARATHI FILM AN TELEVISION
FRATERNITY CAME UP WITH AN OBJECTIVE OF
SAVING THE GIRL CHILD THROUGH A SPECIAL
FIVE MINUTE DANCE BALLET.
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