AN341 Lecture Notes - Sex Selection, Feticide, Neonaticide
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Depreciates women to the point that they cannot even live a few days. Quack doctor service man who portrayed himself as an abortionist. Poured chemicals over the remains of the foetus" to try to hide what they did. Flowers are linked to women and children. If some do not have a boy then they husband will be remarried in order to have a boy. There is only roughly one girl for every 4 boys. Family is the heart of social structure. Most of the girls being prostituted off are younger than 18. In the past 10 years, the number of prostitutes has increase by 50 percent. Feb. 13, 2013: feticide: sex selective abortions, neonaticide: killing of a newborn, infanticide: killing of a child below age 1, indirect infanticide: neglect, microsort: sperm sorting technique. Used for sex selection: pre-implantation genetic diagnosing. Explanations/reasons for sex selection in india: descent/kinship/affinity.
