Female
infanticide is an illegal killing of girl child at any ages and also in the
womb before birth after selective abortion. It has another word like filicide. Girl
children are considered meaningless because of patriarchal societies. Male
children are given more priority as it is the boon of god, economically and
socially above girls. It is common in every continent, countries either
developed or underdeveloped and higher
societies too. It's common in China,
India, Pakistan and other countries.
Female infanticide is a crime,
sinful activity in which girls are terminated. Infants are killed by sex
selection process but baby boy is accepted socially. There are so many reasons
for female infanticide. In some countries, girl child are killed with wrong
concept that it helps in controlling rapid population growth. Many infants are
killed by drowning in the water, letting the child to suffocate to die,
burying, pressing the neck after birth, abortion by medications and leaving it by
not feeding any nutritious food causing starvation and dehydration. Everybody
need mother, sister, daughter in law, etc but a girl child is extremely
excluded and taken as bad luck, burden. Sometimes, own mother kill infant as they
become sufferer of postpartum
depression. Female infanticide is affected by culture rather than the
religions. Girls are killed as their parents have to sacrifice themselves by
giving lots of dowry like jewelers, machinery goods, money and land in marriage
ceremony. So, they will be free from the burden of dowry systems. They take son
for dynasty continuation, care taker in old age, economically strong as they
get higher salary in same works which female does. In some countries like china,
governments have made a policy of having only one child per family. So, many
couples terminate baby girl as they wish to bear baby boy and girl child is
economic disasters for them. Girls with any deformities and disability are
murdered. Child born from mother with rapped pregnancy, is thrown along river
side, bushes or buried. If girls are
killed in such a way, the population of the females will be decreased and male
population is raised to certain height. In some countries, females are killed
to balance the population of the male and female. There are various methods for
reducing female infanticides. Example: timely screening of mothers with
postpartum depression, providing education and regulation of strict laws.
Murdering of female is not a good
practice and is a social crime. Girls should also be given priority as male
because they are also the gift of god and they can do something in life and go
hand in hand with male being as a social worker, nurse, officer, writer and
pilot. She also has her own life as of male and has right to live. The concept
of taking girls as an economic disaster and burden must be diminished. Women
should be united to raise voice and protest against killing of female children
in social media and worldwide.
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