Why is the girl child still despised in rural areas?

Question

Despite the continuous efforts of the goverment in trying to reduce the difference in the sex ratio,the no. of females per thousand males is still comparatively low.Why?What can be done to help increase the no. of girls?
Thanks to all of you who answered this question.I think the above matter needs to be solved immeadietly because we all know that without girls we guys are doomed.

I admit that there is also a lot of injustice in cities but the rural areas are more often the scene to the disaster

Hey, i appreciate the guys writing but where are the girls?Please write too.

Answer 1

Hi friend, what a nice thought and a nice question. I totally agree with you and your concern. Well, one of the reasons for sure is , as 2 other people have mentioned .... dowry. Its our long lived tradition of dowry... it’s a huge expense on the girl's parents so they even commit crimes like feticide or even killing a girl child after she is born. Getting her married is a huge burden on most of the not so well off population of our country. So I think below points are useful if we wish to help our society grow -

1. Educate people against dowry - which we are already doing to some extend. But I do not see any advertisements in the TV relating to this ... do you ?? may be I missed a few each time. So I feel govt. can telecast a few advertisements which can educate people against dowry. In todays world, TV is a very strong media to reach the rich as well as masses. And if it is effective for the other products etc. then I am sure it will be effected for this purpose as well. in fact all the media can follow the same.
2. in schools special emphasis can be given on these issues.
3. govt. should become more vigilant and active once a dowry case is registered.
4. people should be made aware of the benefits if their girl child is educated and can earn her bread and butter.
I think it will gradually become a better society.

Answer 2

The girl child is despised in rural areas is because she will have to be married off. Marriage means dowry i.e. expense. A boy on the other hand will bring dowry. Moreover, a boy will be a source of livelihood. This is not my thinking, but the prevalent reasoning in rural areas. Rural areas are neglected in comparison to urban ones. Close minded traditions still hold sway. Literacy is low. Earnings are low. So girls are unwanted leading to a skewed sex ratio in rural areas. Till the government begins uplift of rural areas in right earnest, guys like you will be continue to be doomed. Unless the girl child is accepted as an equal to a male child, the situation will not improve. So long as we think that the woman's place is in the kitchen we are doomed. Women have excelled in all male dominated spheres that they have entered. It's foolish to think that women are inferior to men. Look at the matriarchal societies in India's Northeast, there the women wear the pants and the male is a drone. Good luck to you.

Answer 3

It is one thing to preach and an entirely different issue to practise. I have not met anyone yet who would admit he or she is against the girl child but whenever I tell anybody I have two daughters and no son, the disappointment in their faces is so obvious.
I personally do not believe that rural India is to blame any more than urban India.
It is my view that soon Indians too will realise that daughters are equal if not better than sons.

Answer 4

The natural sex ratio at conception is estimated close to 1.05 males/female. Due to the generally higher life expectancy of females, sex ratio tends to even out in adult population, and result in an excess of females among the elderly (e.g., the male to female ratio falls from 1.05 for the group aged 15 to 65 to 0.70 for the group over 65 in Germany, from 1.00 to 0.72 in the USA, from 1.06 to 0.91 in mainland China and from 1.07 to 1.02 in India).

Even in the absence of sex selection practices, a range of "normal" sex ratios at birth of between 103 to 107 boys per 100 girls has been observed in different societies, and among different ethnic and racial groups within a given society. Darwin, in his The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, cites a sex ratio of 120 boys to 100 girls for Jewish communities in 19th century Livonia, where infanticide is not historically documented, and the means for pre-natal sex determination did not exist. Still more extreme ratios documented in some populations should be attributed rather more to cultural preferences, than to biological variation in the propensity to bear boys or girls.

In the United States, the sex ratios at birth over the period 1970-2002 were 105 for the white non-Hispanic population, 104 for Mexican Americans, 103 for African Americans and Indians, and 107 for mothers of Chinese or Filipino ethnicity. Among European countries ca. 2001, the ratios ranged between 104 in Belgium and 107 in Portugal. In the aggregated results of 56 Demographic and Health Surveys[1] in African countries, the ratio is 103, though there is also considerable country-to-country variation.

Northern Mariana Islands has the lowes sex ratio of 0.77 males / female. That of United States is 0.97 males / female. India has a sex ratio of 1.06 males / female. While Qatar has the highest sex ration of 1.87 males per female.

These statistics clearly suggest that the female population in India is significant. The conditions are still improving. Days of female feoticide are gone. Although you may find some traces, but soon it would be plain history.

All the best...

:-)

Answer 5

huh? we have few girls because they are despised? are they being aborted?
I don't get the question. They are despised in rural areas? What about cities?
The only place I know of where girls are unwanted is China.

We don't pay dowries in the US.

Answer 6

say it is one of the cause of under development In place of women fighting for women empowerment the social activist should come forward for the cause of woman as the world is fair because of them ,while 98% of the criminals of the world are from the lot of the male

Answer 7

in rural areas girl marriage is very difficult. so they think girl child is burden for them. ( for girl marriage they must give lots of dowry) with out dowry they can not do their girls marriage. illiterecy also on reason.

Answer 8

i think it is mainly because of the still prevailing traditions , cultures,etc..rural parents must be first educated of this matter

thank you

Answer 9

I don't understand quite what you are asking. The only place I know of where girls are despised is in China.

Answer 10

It's God's joke on mankind.