Monday 24 November 2008

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame

Munni (left of picture) and Rekha in Bawana on the outskirts of Delhi

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

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame World news The Observer