" WE DONT NEED FEMALE CHILDREN "

       ' The Girl child is Bad investment.'
        Bringing up the girl child in India is seen as watering a flower in another man's courtyard.
       "Infanticide"......" Fetocide"...
        I stumbled across these words and ever since they left me wondering, thinking. Then I decided to go to school on these terms. My discovery was very shocking.
In india whenever a couple is expecting a baby they go for an abdominal ultrasound scan at 12 weeks gestation to determine the sex of the unborn child, if she turns out to be a girl she is  killed before birth and if he is male then he can go on to complete term and be born and the family members are very joyful including the mother and are all in a celebration and festive mood. Do I see a mark of surprise escape from your face ? This is not  a fiery tale or history like in the times of Mary Slessor who abolished the  killing of twins in Africa. This is as true as it is very present with us now, the  21st century. Infact it was discovered recently in a tribe in India that there where no female children. My question is as good as yours. Where did they all go to, where are they ? Where are the females ? Have the men all of a sudden all become very fertile men that all their wives  give birth to are boys ? Where are the young growing female children ? Where are the young ladies ? How do these men get married, to who ? On further research I learn that importation of very beautiful and rich wives to be who are willing to pay very handsome dowries have become a very lucrative business in those regions.
        Studies show that an estimated 12 million female babies have been killed in the last decade in India alone.
Poorer couples who cannot afford the cost of a sex determining ultrasound allow the baby to term but just at labour the family members of the expectant mother simply inform the birth attendants and midwives that if she turns out a babygirl they need not show the baby to them, instruction is given to get rid of the baby.
Did i puzzle you a second time ? These are true words. You can take me to the bank on them. This left me wondering myself, get rid ? How ? Then i went further on my research on how the girl child is gotten rid of in India. My answers got me more confused and stunned ! i got these few methods.
     (1) the newborn baby girl is suffocated to death with a wet towel
     (2) An insecticide or substance known as calatropis is sniffed into her nostrils
     (3) or she is quietly and gradually starved to death, she falls ill and is hid at home and not taken to a health facility. she is then said to have died of natural causes.
        Back here in Africa ever noticed the usual reaction after family members get the news that their daughter inlaw has put to bed ? The impulsive question that follows next is Boy or Girl ?
A Boy ? Then the celebration is visible, the family members are joyful, the new mother is herself very glad and rested. She has finally stamped her rightful place in the home. if she turns out a baby girl you can bet the mother is going to try again.
        Do we really need female children, do we need the girl child ? who needs the girl child ? Bad investment,tendering a flower in another's courtyard ?
       Of what use is the girl child ? To be beaten ? To be raped, married off at the age of 13yrs to get impregnated by her over 40 yrs husband and have a very difficult obstructed labour, finally coming down with a vesicovagina fistula and be abandoned by the husband after pungent urine smell becomes her perfume ? Or to be considered not fit for school or sacrifice for her younger brother when funds at home cannot cover for both her school fees and that of her younger brother ?
       The girl child is not needed in society ! she is constantly being punished for comiting one henious crime -
Not being a male child !