The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee (SGPC), has announced that it will step in to adopt the abandoned baby girls. In its urgent effort to erase Punjab's darkest gender blot, SGPC will soon ask important gurdwaras in Punjab to place cradles at their entrances and exhort unhappy parents obsessed with boys to leave "those innocent children at god's door, not death's". Do you think that this initiative will be helpful in controlling state's dipping sex ratio and terror tales of girls, both born and unborn, being killed or left to die?
ABX said...
it is one of the move for the nobal couase
Naveen said...
Rightly said by ABX its a Nobel cause atleast innocent lifes will be saved. But may not effect the sex ratio.
Lost Girl said...
Noble cause, Of course. Sex Ration, No-one can ever be sure about that.
Virtualscorpio said...
A wonderful gesture indeed. Given the Indian context it cud become counterproductive. People now will have an unobstructed outlet to leave such child girls, fully aware that gud care wud be taken. This geture has to be rigoursly followed up wid educating the younger masses the moral implications of their deeds. If this kinds of education/culture be inculcated that the girl child is as gud if not better, then the positioning of cradles wud serve as the first step in the right direction.
Niceguy251 said...
Very noble gesture but now it depends on implementation and how society takes it forward. Many a good natured benevolent schemes have been lost due to faulty follow up and vested interests.
Wise donkee said...
religion is useful, but unless there is a social responsibility on girls to take care of parents , the problem wont go away
Lionking said...
the initiative taken by gurudwara commitee is good on humanitarian grounds. but, it is worth reminding that girls also deserve family life like boys. so, it would be nice if gurudwara educates the people, to do away with the need for something like this. but, this initiative would be fine in the short-term basis.
GussaWaalasaid...
A good move but a better move would be to educate men and the general population on respecting women, human life, etc in addition to this new initiative.
Busybee said...
This wont change the sex ratio. This ratio is less becos of the abortions of female foetus, and not only the abandoning of girl babies. For the sex ratio to change, we need social engineering. Changing of mindsets.
Tejbir said...
this step to seems as if we are accepting the second rung status for girls & allowing people to abandon the girl child I would prefer if SGPC comes forward and takes the bold step of declaring all those who kill female foetuses/kill girls for dowry/rape/do atrocities on females as outcasts and orders the others to end any sort of relationship with such people I believe in small towns/villages this step can bring a difference.
Lp said...
There is some research work about relationship between stress of the mother during conception and the gender of the baby so concieved. gretaer stress means more girls...Husbands, take a cue from this, daddies love girls anyway..:p
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it is one of the move for the nobal couase
Rightly said by ABX its a Nobel cause atleast innocent lifes will be saved. But may not effect the sex ratio.
Noble cause, Of course. Sex Ration, No-one can ever be sure about that.
A wonderful gesture indeed.
Given the Indian context it cud become counterproductive.
People now will have an unobstructed outlet to leave such child girls, fully aware
that gud care wud be taken.
This geture has to be rigoursly followed up wid educating the younger masses the moral
implications of their deeds. If this kinds of education/culture be inculcated that the
girl child is as gud if not better, then the positioning of cradles wud serve as the first
step in the right direction.
Very noble gesture but now it depends on implementation and how society takes it forward. Many a good natured benevolent schemes have been lost due to faulty follow up and vested interests.
religion is useful, but unless there is a social responsibility on girls to take care of parents , the problem wont go away
the initiative taken by gurudwara commitee is good on humanitarian grounds.
but, it is worth reminding that girls also deserve family life like boys. so, it would be nice if gurudwara educates the people, to do away with the need for something like this.
but, this initiative would be fine in the short-term basis.
A good move but a better move would be to educate men and the general population on respecting women, human life, etc in addition to this new initiative.
This wont change the sex ratio. This ratio is less becos of the abortions of female foetus, and not only the abandoning of girl babies. For the sex ratio to change, we need social engineering. Changing of mindsets.
this step to seems as if we are accepting
the second rung status for girls & allowing people to abandon the girl child
I would prefer if SGPC comes forward and takes the bold step
of declaring all those who kill female foetuses/kill girls for dowry/rape/do atrocities on females
as outcasts
and orders the others to end any sort of relationship with such people
I believe in small towns/villages this step can bring a difference.
There is some research work about relationship between stress of the mother during conception and the gender of the baby so concieved. gretaer stress means more girls...Husbands, take a cue from this, daddies love girls anyway..:p
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