The document discusses the issue of female foeticide in India, highlighting societal attitudes that view girls as burdens due to cultural beliefs such as the 'paraya dhan' mindset and the dowry system. It outlines the consequences of female foeticide, including a declining female population and increased women's health issues, and emphasizes legal measures like the Prenatal Diagnostic Test Act and the Dowry Prohibition Act to combat these practices. The document also provides statistical data on the decline in child sex ratios and the rise in reported abortions over the years.

1. FEMALE FOETICIDE
Not mere a project…but feelings of many!!!

2. GROUP MEMBERS
 Paramvir Singh Sandhu
 Anmol Sharma
 Arundeep Dhiman

3. JUST A SMALL
VIDEO BEFORE
PROJECT….
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5. MENTALITY FOR GIRL CHILD…
 There are people in India who consider girls as burden and
then there are people who don't. We are too big a country to
conform to a single school of thought. Now people who
unfortunately consider girls a burden might do that due to
following major reasons:
1. The "Paraya Dhan" mindset:
Especially in the north and central India there is this mindset
that girls are paraya dhan (somebody else's treasure). To be
precise its a belief system where the girl's family believe that
since they would eventually marry the girl, the girl actually
never is their own. She is destined to marry and go into a new
family and thus the family she is born into are just a bunch of
caretakers. Extending the same logic, any investment on the
girl child is waste considering the returns would be savored
only by the family she finally marries into.

6.  2. The Dowry menace:
This is a big social disease infesting our society.
Somehow the groom's family feels entitled to cash
and expensive gifts from the girl's family during
marriage. What's shameful is that even educated
families continue to give and demand dowry. In fact
the more educated the groom is, the more dowry is
expected. Every year their are numerous criminal
cases where wives are killed and marriages broken
due to the dowry issue. Since the dowry system
has become such a social norm, girl's parents are
always worried about how to save for the marriage
of their daughter. You know, knowingly or
unknowingly, things like this take a toll. Even if they
love their daughter, somewhere they know how
costly their marriages are gonna be. At the end of
the, it's a burden they got the day she was born.

7.  3. The "name bearer" wishlist:
It's funny how obsessed Indians are with their
family name and its supposed legacy. Boys carry
forward the family name (caste) as girls usually
adopt the surname of their husband. Indian parents
believe that since girls will not actually be the
name-bearer of the family, they are a burden. It's
not uncommon for people to undergo ultrasound
during pregnancy to ensure that its a boy child. In
some areas, female foeticide is also prevalent.
Stupid and shameful but true.

8.  4. The burden of morality:
Even though Indians have so many issues with girl
child, being the hypocrites they are they put the
onus of maintaining family honor on the girls. While
boys are allowed to travel, go out with friends and
party a lot of restrictions are put on the girl child.

9. WHAT IS FOETUS ?
 In human development, a fetus or foetus is
a prenatal human between the embryonic state
and birth. The fetal stage of development tends to be
taken as beginning at the gestational age of eleven
weeks, i.e. nine weeks after fertilization. In biological
terms, however, prenatal development is a continuum,
with no clear defining feature distinguishing an embryo
from a fetus. The use of the term "fetus" generally
implies that an embryo has developed to the point of
being recognizable as a human; this is the point usually
taken to be the ninth week after fertilization. A fetus is
also characterized by the presence of all the major body
organs, though they will not yet be fully developed and
functional and some not yet situated in their
final anatomical location.

10. WHAT IS FEMALE FOETICICDE ?
 Female foeticide in India is the abortion of a
female foetus outside of legal channels. It occurs
in India for assumed cultural reasons that span
centuries.

11. CAUSES OF FEMALE FETICIDE
 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.
*Vicious Cycle of Female Feticide

12. CONSEQUENCES OF FEMALE FETICIDE
 Decrease in the female population.
 Adverse effect on women's health physically , mentally
and emotionally.
 Women are abused and sexually exploited.
 Leads to women trafficking . Women are kidnapped ,
bought and sold for marriage.
 Suicide rates in women will increase .

13. FEMALE FETICIDE IN INDIA
 The child sex ratio has dropped from 945 females
per 1000 males in 1991 to 927 females per 1000
males in 2001.
 Estimated that 50 million girls and women are
‘missing’ from India’s population because of
termination of the female foetus.
 Female foeticide in India increased by 49.2%.

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17. LEGAL INITIATIVES
 The Prenatal Diagnostic Test Act (PNDT
Act)
 The Medical Termination Of Pregnancy Act
 The Dowry Prohibition Act

18. THE MEDICAL TERMINATION OF
PREGNANCY ACT, 1971
 Was enacted by the Indian Parliament in the year 1971
and came into force in 1972 .
 As per India’s abortion laws only qualified doc stipulated
conditions, can perform abortion on a woman in an
approved clinic or hospital.
 The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act
of India clearly states the conditions under which a
pregnancy can be ended or aborted .
Year 1972 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2003 2007 2010
Number of
abortions
reported
24300 214197 388405 583704 581215 570914 723142 1229937 1895721 2529979

19. THE DOWRY PROHIBITION ACT, 1961
 Prohibits the request, payment or acceptance of a
dowry, demanded or given as a precondition for a
marriage.
 Asking or giving of dowry can be punished by an
imprisonment of up to six months, or a fine of up to
Rs. 5000.
 Indian government has modified property
inheritance laws and permitted daughters to claim
equal rights to their parental property.