Female foeticide

Every year ,as millions of women marry, they dream of starting a family, of having their homes filled with tiny cries and the happy laughter of gurgling babies.
however ,perganancy is too often followed by the question of whether the unborn child is a girl or a boy.

"Chhore pe baje thali, chhori pe thekere phoren" is an old sentiment. Which means "announce the birth of a son by beating of brass plates but at the birth of a daughter break earthen pots".
One son is a cause for joy while two are seen as a life time for celebration,the traditional thinking being that if one dies ,at least the other will live to take care of the parents.In the bargain, pressures onthe woman to produce a son are unsending.The girl child is seen as an economic drain as her marriage and dowry crushes her family under huge burden of debts.
Raising a female child is like watering your neighbour's plant is a popular.
However with development of technology for the pre-natal determination of sex of the child, infanticide has been replaced by female foeticide.it was meant to be a test to detect only genetic abnormalities in a foetus, began to be misused for sex selective abortions.

Most girl babies died because of neglect and lack of care.though ther has been no national census to determine the sex ratio at birth,a number of independent surveys have been carried out which adequately indicate the practice of female foeticide...