female foeticide/infanticide/Save girl child ppt by Paras Pareek
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This document discusses the issue of female foeticide in India. It notes that female foeticide means killing the female fetus in the mother's womb, and has been practiced in India for ages despite women once being regarded as goddesses. The causes include poverty, gender discrimination, lack of education, traditional practices, and viewing women as a liability. It urges stopping this evil practice in the name of humanity and discusses legal initiatives and the need for education to end female infanticide.
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female foeticide/infanticide/Save girl child ppt by Paras Pareek
- 1. FEMALE FOETICIDE (SAVE GIRL CHILD) FEMALE FOETICIDE (SAVE GIRL CHILD) Submitted to: Submitted by: Paras Pareek
- 2. Female foeticide/ infanticide The term female foeticide means killing the female foetus in the mother's womb. The practice has been followed in India for ages, a country that once described its women as godessess.
- 3. Causes for Female foeticide/ infanticide Poverty Gender Discrimination Lack of Education Traditional practices Future Speculations (Education, Marriage, Dowry, etc) Women are viewed as a liability
- 4. Causes for Female foeticide/ infanticide Obsession for Son. Fear of dowry by many poor class families. Girls are considered as financial obligation by many parents. Advancement in technology , nowadays parent determines the sex of a child before birth. Some of the doctors do this heinous act to fulfill their money desire.
- 5. It is said that God created Mothers because He could not be present everywhere. But its unbelievable to realize that God’s representatives is continuously killing someone beautiful even before she can come out and see the beauty of the nature.
- 6. We Indians call our nation, Mother India and are great devotees of Goddess in various manifestations. But we all are openly playing double standard games with our country as well as our Goddess. One end we say that we worship Maa Saraswathi, Maa Durga, Maa Lakshmi and at the other end we are continuously destroying the precious gift of nature, a girl child.
- 7. People love to have a “MOTHER” People love to have a “WIFE” People love to have a “SISTER” People love to have a “GIRL FRIEND” too, THEN “WHY NOT A DAUGHTER ?
- 9. “FEMALES” ARE A VERY “PRECIOUS ASSETS” OF THE WORLD BECAUSE
- 11. “THEY RULE” “THEY EXPLORE” “THEY STRUGGLE”
- 12. • Skewed Sex Ratio * 962 and 945 girls for every 1000 boys in the years 1981 and 1991 * 933 girls for 1000 boys according to Indian Census 2011 * Rural Sex Ratio – 946 * Urban Sex Ratio – 900 * State with highest female sex ratio- Kerala - 1058 * State with lowest female sex ratio - Haryana - 861 SOCIAL EFFECTS
- 14. SEX RATIO MAP OF RAJASTHAN
- 15. Is this our Future???
- 16. Its not too late Let us stop this EVIL Female Foeticide, In the name of “HUMANITY”
- 17. Legal Initiatives The Prenatal Diagnostic Test Act (PNDT Act 1971) The Medical Termination Of Pregnancy Act The Dowry Prohibition Act (1961)
- 18. Conclusion It is the responsibility of the Educated generation to stir a revolution for saving the girl child. We need to educate those educated as well as the uneducated ignorants who commits such crimes as female infanticide. Television, advertisements, movies, in theater plays can influence people.
- 19. Conclusion Satyamev Jayate highlighted it’s 1st episode on female foeticide which talked about 3 cases. It was not from rural area but from urban city. Strong action against the doctors who facilitate female foeticide. The government should implement stern policies against this by removing the child sex recognizing canters and banning their licenses. The family who are involved in this act should be fined with high cash amount and sent to the jail for a minimum of 5years.