%0 Journal Article
%T FEMALE FOETICIDE - AN ISSUE OF CONCERN FOR ONE AND ALL
%A NIDHI BENIWAL
%J Golden Research Thoughts
%D 2013
%I Laxmi Book Publication
%R 10.9780/22315063
%X India has a patriarchal society where men are seen as role models who aresupposed to look after their parents in old age. Giving birth to a girl child is seen by manyas "watering the neighbours' plants" and birth of a male child is looked upon as a featherin the cap with great pride and joy. Female infanticide, or the killing of female babies,was a practice prevailing in India long ago. Though this has now been abolished legally,we find that it is still practised in a different and more sophisticated manner. Females arebeing now being killed even before they are born that we call as female foeticide.
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