Even when the second daughter came along, they were still kind of content. But after the third child it was the girl again so they decided to take an abrupt action and that was they aborted the fetus.Due to the economic, religious and social norms most indian families are pressurize to have son. Once the daughter grow up, she is suppose to get married traditionally and usually go to live with her in-laws. Whereas, sons stay with his parents at home and take care of them as they grow old. Tanya also mentioned that she might have stopped having more kids but both her husband and mother-in-law kept forcing her, so that the family could have son. However, Sanjay said that he almost spent all of his savings on his daughters’ education and also covered the majority of the wedding expenses, when his first daughter got married— and Indian weddings definitely do not come cheap.The Supreme Court in India have passed the law which basically says that ‘telling the parents sex of the baby is prohibited and they can not determine the sex of unborn child any time before’.The judges also blamed what they call ‘’uncontrolled foeticide’,and they say the mindset of parents and society needs to
Even when the second daughter came along, they were still kind of content. But after the third child it was the girl again so they decided to take an abrupt action and that was they aborted the fetus.Due to the economic, religious and social norms most indian families are pressurize to have son. Once the daughter grow up, she is suppose to get married traditionally and usually go to live with her in-laws. Whereas, sons stay with his parents at home and take care of them as they grow old. Tanya also mentioned that she might have stopped having more kids but both her husband and mother-in-law kept forcing her, so that the family could have son. However, Sanjay said that he almost spent all of his savings on his daughters’ education and also covered the majority of the wedding expenses, when his first daughter got married— and Indian weddings definitely do not come cheap.The Supreme Court in India have passed the law which basically says that ‘telling the parents sex of the baby is prohibited and they can not determine the sex of unborn child any time before’.The judges also blamed what they call ‘’uncontrolled foeticide’,and they say the mindset of parents and society needs to