Essay on Baby
Girl.
These days
gender imbalance is becoming a grave problem especially in India. Girls are
either aborted from mother’s womb or killed after birth. This gives rise to
crimes like rape and killing. Write an essay emphasizing importance of women in
the society.
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In ancient
time birth of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian
proverb, “A home without a daughter is like a body without soul”. The birth of
a daughter in the house was compared with the advent of Goddess Laxmi, the
Goddess of wealth and Goddess Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and Wisdom. No
ceremony was considered to be complete in absence of women. The belief was that
“No home is complete without a woman.”
Indian is
a “Male Dominated Society” hence women are the receiving end. They are always will
treated and ill-treated at every step. As a matter of fact, a girl child is under
constant, vigil initially by the parents, then her husband and finally her own
children. She is never allowed to dwell and survive freely. Worst of all she is
often killed before being born while in mother’s womb itself. This is foetus
killing or infanticide. This is the gross downfall of humanity, morality and the
values.
The
situation has drastically worsened these days. Women suffer badly, infanticide have
become widespread. Parents don’t send daughters for schooling thinking that the
daughter is going to be a kitchen confined housewife. There was, hence, decline
in female literacy and her position in the society. This practice is lasting
till today and the killing of foetus after the sex determination is fearlessly
continued.
The crime
of female foetus aborting is widespread not only in rural areas but in urban areas
too. With the help of new techniques it
has become possible to determine the sex of the unborn baby or the foetus, and
if it is found to be a girl child than, this is followed by abortion. Clinics
offering such service have come up all over the country. For the doctors with sex
identification equipments the said illegal business is booming beyond
imagination. Although there are severing laws against the misuse of parental
diagnostic techniques, those are meant only for detecting abnormalities in the
unborn infant and associated risks to the pregnant mother if any. The doctors,
however, violate this law. Not a single case has been field so far under the
law, which forbids such an unethical practice.
Dowry is another
big evil in some northern states of India. Father of the girl has to give lot
of cash and gold to the bridegroom. This may be given either during the wedding
or after the marriage ceremony. In case the father of the bride fails to spare
the said valuables on account of his poor economic health, the bride (the
daughter) is severely tortured or she may even be torched to death. Today, the said problem is quite widespread in
the northern states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Upon
attaining puberty, a girl is considered to be a security risk, a likely source
of trouble for the family’s honour and reputation. Then there are economic
reasons for her killing. She is a liability for her parents from the cradle
ceremony to the marriage. There has been not let up in the dowry system, which
breaks the back of the parents. She is got rid of in order to save the family
properly from partition. In some communities there is a dirty superstition that
is a daughter is killed, the next child will be a son. In China also, the
eldest male child inherits the property look upon the male child as their
protector and supporter in old age. This gender-bias leads to the killing of
girl child.
At least, I
cannot imagine my existence in this world had there been no girl. I would not have
come to this beautiful world and enjoyed my life had there been no girl. I am born
because of a woman. I am married to a woman. The woman is my mother, my sister
and my wife.
The human society
is like a cart. The God has created man and woman as the two wheels of this
society cart. Those two wheels are made for each other. For the human race to
exist and survive, both of the wheels must be functional else the society collapses.
In
nutshell all must be kind to women with high degree of love and respect to
them. There is no life without a wife and there can’t be a wife in absence of
girl. Considering all the facts above, save the girl child in the interest of
humanity. Saving baby girls shall minimise crime and build a powerful nation.
(750
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