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raushan
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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 Topic initiated on Monday, August 24, 2009 - 1:22 PM 
The Daughter Deficit
In the late 1970s, a Ph.D. student named Monica Das Gupta was conducting anthropological fieldwork in Haryana, a state in the north of India. She observed something striking about families there: parents had a fervent preference for male offspring. Women who had given birth to only daughters were desperate for sons and would keep having children until they had one or two. Midwives were even paid less when a girl was born. “It’s something you notice coming from outside,” says Das Gupta, who today studies population and public health in the World Bank’s development research group. “It just leaps out at you.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23FOB-idealab-t.html?_r=2&;ref=magazine# |
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hkhan
UNITED KINGDOM
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Posted - Monday, August 24, 2009 - 7:59 PM 
| thank God Islam brought an end to this tradition of jahiliyyah |
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