Analyse af 'India’s Unwanted Girls'

The article, ‘India’s Unwanted Girls’, written by Geeta Pandey in Delhi, in 2011 for BBC, touches subjects like social pressure, dowry, violence, in-laws, but above all love. She examines what has caused the inequality, there is in this country, not only in the amount of money the individual has, but also the fact, that they prefer to get boys, and choose to deselect female foetuses. There are included real-life stories, in the article, where you hear the women, who have experienced this massive pressure and hard decision, it is to give up, their female foetuses, tell their own story and view. Besides this, the article also includes statistic materials, which shows areas in India, where they have the highest sex ratio.

The first person we meet, is Kulwant. She has three daughters and only one son. In total she has been pregnant seven times, where only the last was a boy. Between her youngest daughter and her son, she was pregnant three times, but was forced to give them up, and get an abortion, by her in-laws. Her mother-in-law told her, that if she didn’t bear a boy, her husband would leave her; they even attempted to put her on fire. All this is happening, only because the families in India desperately wish to get a boy, so that they can receive their dowry, when their sons are married. But when she finally gave birth to a son, her husband died three years later. As she claims: “it was the curse of the daughters we killed. That’s why he died so young,” page 2, line 3.