Solutions

1. Laws have been passed declaring female foeticide as illegal.Strict punishment should be given to the defaulters.

2.The trend of taking and giving of dowry which takes place mostly in educated and upper class homes can not be discouraged by laws alone.

3. Efforts and provisions should be made to provide social security to parents who are above 65 years of age and have only daughters.

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The girl child in the womb faces the peril of prebirth elimination i.e. female foeticide.Female foeticide refers to the elimination of female foetus through abortions.Feticide or foeticide is an act that causes the death of a fetus.
In a legal context, "fetal homicide" or "child destruction" refers to the deliberate or incidental killing of a fetus due to a criminal human act, such as a punch or kick to the abdomen of a pregnant woman.
As a medical term, feticide is destruction of a fetus,for example as the first phase of a legal induced abortion. Feticide does not refer to the death of a fetus from entirely natural causes, or through the spontaneous abortion of a pregnancy where the life of the fetus could not be maintained artificially

However, the Indian Medical Association disputed the findings, saying gender selection had dropped since a court ruling outlawed the practice in 2001.The new slogan of population changed to "WE TWO OUR ONE" 

Laws That have been Passed.

"We two, ours one", "Girl or Boy, let there just be one child" are awareness campaigns started by the government of India, but there is lack of laws that enforce single child.

A baby girl tied in polythene bag and dumped in a public dustbin left to be torn away by wild stray dogs. An incident that took place nowhere else but in the very capital of our country.

Three Major Reasons Behind Female Foeticide


Studies in INDIA have indicated three major reasons behind Female Foeticide

1.Economic Utility

2.Sociocultural Utility

3.Religious Utility

Economic Utility

The factor as to economic utility is that studies indicate that sons are more likely than daughters to provide family farm labour or provide in or for a family business, earn wages, and give old-age support for parents. Upon marriage, a son makes a daughter-in-law an addition and asset to the family providing additional assistance in household work and brings an economic reward through dowry payments, while daughters get married off and merit an economic penalty through dowry charges.

Sociocultural Utility

The sociocultural utility factor of female deselection is that, as in China, in India's patrilineal and patriarchal system of families is that having at least one son is mandatory in order to continue the familial line, and many sons constitute additional status to families.

Religious Utility

The final factor of female deselection is the religious functions that only sons are allowed to provide, based on Hindu tradition, which mandate that sons are mandatory in order to kindle the funeral pyre of their late parents and to assist in the soul salvation.

Reasons for selective abortions are many, from carrying the family name forward, lighting the funeral pyre to hoping for a male breadwinner in the family. But the reason, which tops the list, is dowry - a price paid by the parents to marry off their daughters.