A burden
A newborn baby girl has been discovered buried alive in northern India, a local police chief has revealed.
Abhinandan Singh told reporters the baby was found by a villager who was burying his own daughter, who had died minutes after birth.
The baby girl, who had been placed inside an earthen pot about 3ft (90cm) below the ground, was rushed to hospital, where she is recovering.
Anoop Kumar Mishra
India’s gender ratio is one of the worst in the world. Women are often discriminated against socially and girls are seen as a financial burden, particularly among poor communities.
Campaigners say a traditional preference for sons has meant millions of female children lost to foeticide and infanticide over the years.
Imagine what it must be like to be a female person in India.
Yeah, but I bet they don’t have to deal with stickers.
How scientifically unenlightened. Parents need to wait to discover the baby’s gender identity before they decide if it’s a girl or not.
“India’s gender [sic] ratio is one of the worst in the world.”
They must have their grammar way out of whack with natural sex ratios.
The logic of this is the creation of large numbers of frustrated young men, unable to find marriage or non-marriage partners; becoming in turn a delight for the recruiters of Islamism and other religious extremisms.
I guess sex isn’t something one can opt out of so as to avoid the perils of being that sex. Huh, who knew? Oh well, better erode the protections put in place against such perils…