Over the past 20 years in India, 10 million female babies have been aborted. The pressure to have sons is terrifying - mothers who bear daughters are beaten or cast aside by husbands and in-laws desperate to escape the financial burden of a girl’s dowry. Now mothers are being urged to ’save the girl child’ as the country tries to end decades of tragic abuse.
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Where a baby girl is a mother’s awful shame - The Observer 23rd November 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
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