Save Girl Child In India

Save Girl Child
Welcome to the world of save girl child, promising yet gloomy, hopeful, yet in despair. The hand that rocks the cradle, the procreator, the mother of tomorrow; a woman shapes the destiny of civilization. Such is the tragic irony of fate, that a beautiful creation such as the girl child is today one of the gravest concerns facing humanity, with a volley of summits, conferences and events held for the cause, with topmost world leaders at the helm.

India is growing dynamically in every field. Today, the boom in economy, innovative technologies and improved infrastructure has become nation’s pride. The country has witnessed advancements in all fields but bias against a girl child is still prevailing in the country.

This social evil is deep rooted in Indian ethos and the most shocking fact is that the innovative and hard high end technologies are brutally killing the Indian girl child. Innovative techniques, like biopsy, ultrasound, scan tests and amniocentesis, devised to detect genetic abnormalities, are highly misused by number of families to detect gender of the unborn child. These clinical tests are highly contributing to the rise in genocide of the unborn girl child.

In today’s day and age most couples prefer the process known as a planned pregnancy, because of various factors; prime amongst them being the financial well being to support the birth and nurturing of a child. In such cases, the first prenatal visit actually happens prior to actual pregnancy, to see whether one is ready to go off the contraception pills and conceive a baby.

However, in maximum conceptions, one is unaware of the pregnancy until actual realization dawns after one skips the first menstrual cycle. Normally doctors except ladies to pay their first visit anywhere between the sixth and twelfth week after conception.

Amniocentesis started in India in 1974 to detect fetal abnormalities. These tests were used to detect gender for the first time in 1979 in Amritsar, Punjab. Later the test was stopped by the Indian Council of Medical Research but it was too late. The benefits of these tests were leaked out and people started using it as an instrument for killing an innocent and unborn girl child.  Many of the traditional women organizations also took up cudgels to stop this illegal practice but all failed and with the passage of time these tests became a major contributor to bias against a girl child.

Female feticide and infanticide is not the only issues with a save girl child in India. At every stage of life she is discriminated and neglected for basic nutrition, education and living standard. When she was in the womb, she was forced to miss the moment when she was supposed to enter the world. At the time of birth her relatives pulled her back and wrung her neck. After killing her she was thrown into a trash can.

During childhood, her brother was loaded with new shoes, dresses and books to learn while she was gifted a broom, a wiper and lots of tears. In her teenage, she missed tasty delicious food to eat and got only the crumbs. During her college days, she was forced to get married, a stage where illiteracy, lack of education resulted in high fertility rate, aggravating the condition of females in the country. Again if this female gives birth to a girl child, the journey begins once again. She missed all roses of life and was finally fitted to a graveyard. That’s where she got peace of mind.

The nation of mothers still follows a culture where people idolizes son and mourns daughters. UN figures out that about 750,000 girls are aborted every year in India. Abortion rates are increasing in almost 80% of the India states, mainly Punjab and Haryana. These two states have the highest number of abortions every year. If the practice continues, then no longer a day will come when Mother India will have no mothers, potentially, no life.

We all are proud citizens of India. The need of hour is to realize our responsibilities and give a halt to this evil crime. What can we do to curb the brutal and undesirable practice of mass killing girls? A determined drive can initiate a spark to light the lamp and show the world that we all are part of the great Mother India..

'Perseverance and inspiration often leads to privilege but without hard work and dedication they'll be no success. The hardest profession to take in life is being a girl child. Discrimination and discrepancy are two most important factors that hamper the journey of every female from the earliest stage of life. Starting from her presence into her mother’s womb to infancy, childhood and finally to adulthood, she is outnumbered by the male dominating society of the country.

India is a country where social disadvantage outweighs natural biological advantage of being a girl. A whole range of discriminatory practices including female foeticide, female infanticide, female genital mutilation, son idolization, early marriage and dowry have buried the future of the nation. In India, discriminatory practices have greatly influenced the health and well-being of a girl child, resulting in a higher mortality rate.
It is believed that every year 12 million girls are born in the country but unfortunately only 1/3 of those survive. Some are killed in the womb, some at the time of birth, some die due to ill health and some due to poor nutritional status. Only a few numbers of girls are able to survive till their 15th birthday.

Parents adopt new methods to kill baby girls

JAISALMER: The father of a baby girl, who died in suspicious circumstances, was arrested and sent to judicial custody for 15 days. Police claim that Deen Singh alias Dileep Singh, the father of the girl, deliberately denied her treatment, which led to her death.

According to the local medical authorities, members of some communities, infamous for killing baby girls, have now found a new way to make the deaths look 'natural'. The baby girls are either not fed enough or denied treatment. The authorities came across three such cases in Tejmalta and Mandi villages of the district during the last 10 days.

JAISALMER: The father of a baby girl, who died in suspicious circumstances, was arrested and sent to judicial custody for 15 days. Police claim that Deen Singh alias Dileep Singh, the father of the girl, deliberately denied her treatment, which led to her death.

According to the local medical authorities, members of some communities, infamous for killing baby girls, have now found a new way to make the deaths look 'natural'. The baby girls are either not fed enough or denied treatment. The authorities came across three such cases in Tejmalta and Mandi villages of the district during the last 10 days.


On Friday, Dileep Singh was arrested after his daughter, who was born on June 13, died in the absence of proper treatment. According to SP Mamta Vishnoi, SDM Fatehgarh has submitted a report to Sangad police station in this regard, following which a case was registered and action was taken. A special team recovered the body of the baby for post-mortem.

Vishnoi said investigation into the case revealed that Singh did not make any efforts to save the child. "During the investigation, contradictory information came to light pointing that Singh was completely careless towards his daughter. He was arrested on Friday and sent to judicial custody on Saturday,'' added Vishnoi.

In last 10 days, three newborn girls died suspiciously in the area. According to reports, Keku Kanwar delivered a healthy baby at Tejmalta on June 8 but was brought to the Jhinjhinyali primary health centre in serious condition the next day. The baby did not survive. On the same day, the death of yet another baby girl was reported, following which the entire family is missing.

District collector Shuchi Tyagi accepted the fact that some people are deliberately resorting to inhuman methods in order to save themselves from the law. Tyagi said it is a planned conspiracy and of the three recent cases, the newborns were buried in the backyard of the house. They also use chemical or salt so that body gets destroyed quickly. "The reasons could not be found in the post-mortem. Therefore, viscera has been sent to FSL for investigation and after the report comes, the reasons of death would be known. We are also talking to experts about what can be done to avoid such incidents,'' she said

Indian father kills baby ‘for being a girl’

Indian father accused of killing baby ‘for being a girl’
Bangalore, India (CNN) — Nineteen-year-old Reshma Banu sits on the stairs outside her parents’ home, staring at the tiny screen on her cell phone. The video on the screen has her mesmerized: a very short home video of her baby girl, Afreen. The moments captured are precious because they show Banu’s only child alive and well.

Afreen died in the hospital. She was three months old. Authorities say the baby was admitted to the hospital with bite marks, cigarette burns and a dislocated neck. Police say she was killed by her father.

“After my delivery my husband had come to see me and the baby. He said, ‘It is a girl, why did you give birth to a girl?’”

He wanted a boy, an heir. Girls were too expensive, he said. A couple of days after giving birth, Banu says her husband gave an ultimatum.

“For her wedding we will require a hundred thousand rupees (about US$1,800 dollars) for all the expense. If you can get that amount from your mother, then keep her, but if you can’t, then kill her,” Banu recalled her husband as saying.

She didn’t believe he meant it and was sure he would change his mind once he held his soft, bright-eyed baby girl. Three months later, her baby is dead, and her husband is under arrest, accused of beating the baby to death. Police say he confessed to the killing.

This is by no means the first case of its kind in India. Attitudes, traditions, and economics have come together to make being a girl a dangerous prospect in the country, doctors say. Most of the time girls are disposed of long before they are born. (CONTINUE)

“Don’t kill your baby girls,”

But the miserable lives in store for baby girls born in Pakistan, makes it easy to understand why some mothers prefer to kill them at birth.
Girls/women who rebel against the oppression they face from their own families end in in psyche wards. Some have actually lost their minds from the beatings, virtual imprisonment in their homes, and girls-for-sale forced marriages. Others are perfectly sane, but their Muslim families don’t want to deal with daughters who refuse to be subservient.

Runaways fleeing forced marriages, abusive husbands, and rapists are sent to prison because under Islamic law, you can be charged with a rape crime, even if you are the victim.

The kidnapping and selling of young girls to old men is a big business for the thriving Pakistani sex slave traders. Unimpeded by the government, corrupt police are paid off for their silence by the sex traders. In some cases, officials and police even assist the slave traders by sending runaway girls to them. Many of these girls end up in the hundreds of brothels which are doing big business in Karachi.

Not surprisingly, the narrator absolves Islam of any blame for the horrific conditions suffered by women in Pakistan.



Shocking rise in baby girl murders in Pakistan
The babies are victims of what one relief agency calls Pakistan’s worst unfolding tragedy: the killing and dumping of newborns. “Sometimes they hang them, sometimes they stab them, and sometimes we find bodies which have been burned to death,” said Anwar Kazmi, of the Edhi Foundation, Pakistan’s largest private social service and relief agency.


At a morgue in Pakistan, five small pouches line the shelf of a walk-in freezer. Wrapped inside each is the corpse of an infant. The killing and dumping of newborns, mostly girls, is happening more often.
More than 1,200 newborns were killed and dumped in Pakistan last year, an increase of about 200 from the previous year. Statistics show that roughly nine out of 10 are baby girls, which families may consider too costly to keep in a country where women frequently are not allowed to work. The babies are usually just days old. Their corpses are often dumped in Karachi’s sprawling garbage dumps, where they’re sometimes mutilated by street animals, Kazmi said. He estimates that hundreds of baby corpses are never found.

baby girl saved from abortion

Argentinean baby girl saved from abortion brings joy to family

(EWTN) — In its June edition, the Argentinean magazine Familia y Vida featured the story of a baby girl who was conceived through rape but spared from abortion, and has become the joy of her family’s home.


The case of Luz Maria stirred the province of Missiones in 2011, as numerous organizations, media outlets and government officials urged that she be aborted because she was the product of rape.

The family, however, resisted pressure to abort Luz Maria.


“For us it was a race against time,” said Julieta Lardies of the Federal Network of Families, which worked to help save the baby’s life.


“If we had to describe what we went through when this started we would say they were the five most intense days we have ever faced,” she added.


“Given the circumstances, each hour that passed, each minute, could have been decisive for the life of little Luz Maria, who since her mother’s womb was awaiting a death sentence.”


The magazine said Luz Maria’s testimony is essential to pushing back against the implementation of a March 13 Supreme Court ruling allowing abortions to be performed in cases of rape.

Children are dying because of the fear of Ebola

Confronting rumours and myths
Ebola is spreading across Sierra Leone at an alarming rate, yet half the battle is to confront the rumours and myths that so often sweep through communities in times of crisis.
Sarah, the manager of a local health centre, used to see 20 to 30 children every day as well as 10 or more mothers. But there has been a dramatic reduction in attendance since the outbreak.
According to Sarah, “they are scared to come because they are always saying that when they come to the hospital we class them all as Ebola patients.”

Common illnesses going untreated
This fear means that common illnesses such as respiratory tract infections, malaria, diarrhoea and vomiting, are going untreated - sometimes with serious consequences.
“Most of the children are not coming to the clinic because their mothers are scared to bring them,” says Sarah. The children “are dying because of the fear of Ebola.”
“I met a mother when we went out,” she continues, “her child was very malnourished.
“He was unable to eat. So we tried to talk to the mother about the child’s condition. We advised the mother and told her to bring the child to the hospital.
“She promised us that she would come but she never did.

“The understanding is not there”
“The understanding is not there. We tell them what will happen if they don’t come to the clinic but only a few come. But that will not stop us. We will continue our work to raise awareness.”
In the face of this unprecedented health crisis, it is vitally important that communities are given the tools and knowledge to protect themselves. Save the Children has funded Sarah’s clinic and is also providing training and support for the community health workers.
Patrick is one of these. He learnt about Ebola through a number of workshops run by Save the Children and other NGOs.
Initially, they would go door-to-door to see whether there were any suspected cases of Ebola, but now they are also giving people health and hygiene advice.

“We must overcome our fear”
Patrick says: “Ebola is killing a lot of people…As a community health worker, you have made a vow to serve the community. You can be afraid of the disease, but we are there to raise awareness and we must overcome our fear.
We are not doing this for ourselves, but for the unborn children and for our future.”

6 in direction of Eight months

0 toward Four months
 For infants, milk is the simply just important food stuff (with water) or versus the breast. Cow's milk does not address 100% of nutritional use crucial for the improvement of your little one. Simply breast milk satisfies all nutritional desires of toddlers. Just breast milk fulfills all dietary demands of infants. For mothers who are not able or unwilling in the direction of breastfeed, infant formula is an alternative. In just all predicaments, it is essential towards follow the guidance of the professional medical profession included with checking your boy or girl. For the selection and frequency of feeds be sure to check with your fitness treatment professional. In no way ignore that each kid is substitute. This is a constructive year toward try out your child within just Youngster Slumber Fits to see if he/she reacts inside of soreness or not.

 Four to Six weeks
 In opposition to 4 months you may involve dietary diversification; this is a principal action for the progress of the two your kid and his or her gustatory education and learning. Diversification is just one course to stop guaranteed illnesses taking place inside of adulthood this kind of as weight problems. That is why jars of kid food stuff include no more sugar and no extra salt. Through this period, the principal meals is the milk but the baby's digestive procedure develops adequately towards soak up other vitamins and minerals. Above five months a youngster can swallow semi-solid meals because the actions of his tongue develop into more coordinated.

 The Weaning Procedure
 Concerning 4 and six months a baby begins to demonstrate its desire toward try to eat in a different way.
 Within just general, he/she may well sit with your support and retain food in just his mouth. Sometimes he chews anything is within attain, drools each time he sees anything to take in and demonstrates indications of hunger even immediately after feeding.

 The moment on your own have made a decision it is time in the direction of wean, connect one particular hour meal through which your baby will purchase your notice. Some infants are hungrier within the evening; many others are hungrier in just the morning. At first, on your own present amazingly minor levels with a spoon. Do not rush the introduction of a fresh new food and do not try out toward do it all within just one day. It is a course of action that is unfold out about period. Some infants consume what by yourself provide and anticipate even further. Other folks do not together with the contact of the spoon inside of the mouth. It is recommended in direction of publish simply 1 fresh new food stuff for every working day toward support him take a look at the real flavor of each individual food stuff and establish any intolerance. Amongst veggies, on your own can get started with carrots, inexperienced beans, spinach, squash (seeded and skinned), leeks, pumpkins, and beetroot. In between fruits, by yourself really should Deliver ripe fruit, de-seeded (in highest cases anyway). Culmination or vegetables should really be combined towards come across a gentle texture and steamed in order to continue to keep the vitamins and minerals. Oneself can start through blending a couple veggies or fruit in a bottle of milk if your kid refuses the spoon.

 Each individual day, offer you your child a handful of minor spoonfuls just after feedings if he appears to be hungry. Then two weeks later, advise a second model of food with a spoon. If the experiment proves rewarding, try a third foods design two weeks later on. If your kid continue to wants burping then shift forward and then pop him or her down for a supervised rest inside Baby Sleeping Luggage if your youngster gets worn out following feedings.

 6 in direction of Eight months
 From Six months a child starts off chewing, even if he or she has no tooth. Gradually, you-can put up clean flavours and clean textures to aid educate your babys palette.

 8 in the direction of Twelve months
 From Eight weeks your kid is sitting up and having fun with early teething. The child can by now swallow Quite minor parts of put together food stuff.

 12 towards Fifteen weeks
 Close to the age of Twelve weeks your kid commences to stand on his individual toes and starts towards get his initially ways. Your boy or girl additionally learns to seek the services of a spoon and feed himself/herself.

 Towards 15 weeks and onwards
 In opposition to this age, preferences variance and some flavours begin towards be loved and other individuals start towards be disliked. This is anytime your self kid will commence towards take pleasure in snacking, as a result putting a carrot adhere or apple cut within just your childs hand will train them to get pleasure from greens Though they are older.

 Albert Jakeman is a dietary guide who specialises in baby merchandise these kinds of as boy or girl food stuff, Boy or girl Sleeping Luggage and Little one Rest Satisfies.