Female Infanticide In India
Beginning of paper
Infanticide was a topic that I was very emotional about. I could
never understand how a mother or father could kill an infant or child. It
would make my blood boil whenever I read or listened to a news story
involving the murder or abandonment of an infant. How could someone just
disregard a life t ....
Middle of paper
.... field in an unmarked grave. “I never felt any sorrow,” Rani , a
farm laborer with a weather beaten face, said through a interpreter. “
There was a lot of bitterness in my heart toward the baby because the gods
should have given me a son.”(John Anderson, 1993, p. 6)
Each year thousands of newborn girls are murdered by their mothers
simply because they are female. Some women believe that sacrificing a
daughter guarantees a son in the next pregnancy. Because of the tremendous
p ....
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