Re: [nukkad] Infanticide

["Ravi Menon" <>]

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Aditi Shah wrote ...
I have seen this discrimination amongst well-educated people in Bombay who 
were definitely well-off to the point where the reasons were not financial.

I know several girls in India who wanted to become engineers or
doctors and had the potential, but their fathers who were engineers and 
doctors themselves didnt see the point of educating a girl to that extent.

The one thing I dont understand is how can mothers and grandmothers who are  
women themselves be just as discriminating.

First let u snot confuse the terms training and education. u can be educated 
even without going to an educational institution. It is an awareness to live 
life with socila and moral responsibility that i consider an education. And 
in a family where business is the major interest a girl will not help in the 
running of it once she is married so that may cause that school of thought.

Point 2, education? no training :))

Mothers and Grandmothers possibly discriminate for the simple reason that 
they have no intentions to put anyone else through the same trials and 
tragedies that they have gone through. Perhaps for that it is the fault of 
our ancestors who treated them so poorly...


Lastly I think there is a case for Kerala and the Khasis of Manipur. 
Following a matrilineal family system teh woman hads greater importance than 
the man and subsequently more importance. This is however changing thanks to 
modernisation!

Ravi
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