Female Infanticide

40-50 million girls have gone 'missing' in India in 1990. They are termed as missing as they were either murdered at the time of their birth or within few hours of birth. In fact the very women who assist in the birth of a child are the ones who are paid to finish off unwanted female babies. On payment of a fee that can range between Rs. 60-150, these dais kill the female babies the moment …

…signal the beginning of financial ruin and extreme hardship. With an extremely high infant and child mortality rate, because of sparse food supply and medical care, a married couple needed to raise three sons in order to ensure the survival of one into adulthood. When comparing the U.S.A and India, India has a rate of 22.8 million birth children missing per year on the average. The U.S.A has only 3.6 million missing babies.