Sex Ratio

There has been a very sharp decline in the sex ratio in India in the past decade .
What are the factors responsible for this?

lavina said…
Attitude!!! towards female children....... belief !!!that they arent equal to male children treatment!!! of second class citizens.

abhilasha said…
one important reason is Inheritece.. all knows that the only boy hold the name of forefathers..

umesh said…
The bias against females in India is related to the fact that sons are looked to as a type of insurance. With this perspective, it becomes clearer that the high value given to males decreases the value given to females.The problem of marriage expenses and dowry system where a family of a prospective bride must pay enormous sums of money to the family in which the woman will live after marriage is also the reason.in rural India, the centuries-old practice of female infanticide and foeticide and still be considered as major reason. sex-selective abortion in urban India supported by greedy doctors are also important reason.

wise donkey said…
1.clinics which mention the sex of the child. (The decrease has increased with every decade. and no doctor has been punished till date, even though more than a million girls have died due to this) 2.Social thought that the son should take care of the family. (after all will baghban been a hit, if Amitabh had 4 daughters?) Either son in laws should take care of the girl's parents too or parents should stop spending on higher education and marriage and save that amount for their retirement. 3.Lack of awareness amongst guys that they dont get girlfriends because of this dwindling ratio.

Santosh said…
I think the main reason behind this is the insecurity for womens increasing in India. The way womens are getting raped very easily even in Police stations not less even childrens of 3-4 years are being raped. This is just irritating to anyone. So the peoples thinking better to have male baby. I dont support the abotrtions of female baby. But I think this may be a major reason behind this.

simi said…
I will say something different, its happening because of increase in disregard for/of females. and lack of awareness between the females themselves.

anjali said…
its old tradition dat sons r more important to continue d family tree and most importantly last rites cn be performed by them only..........we r trained like dat..............so we r greedy watever dey do wid us in dis world bt dey cn only lead us to salvation.........to d other world...........its really ridiculous........we need to change our outlook altogether.........its pity dat even educated ppl believe in dis....... tc bye

Hershey Desai said…
Speaking on general terms, if people are frankly, aborting the baby on finding out its a girl, thats just a damn shame. On what grounds really would you want an abortion? women these days do everything,...almost everything men do. Doctors lawyers engineers, hell..I have seen dozens of women who outrank the best of guys in engineering... my request..come on guys..keep the ratio in balance... i went out with a lot of gals when I was in college...am sure you guys must have to..don't you want your son to have that privilege? how do expect him to go with girls if they are so hard to find... the only alternative then is...guys?? don't even wanna go there...