India's+Missing+Girls

India's Missing Girls by Annie Stavins and Marley Hambourger

The boy to girl ratio in India is one of the most imbalanced in the world.

The “lack” of girls in India can be explained by people not wanting girls, parents going to illegal clinics, and that girls are more malnourished. Daughters in India are not valued the way that sons are. Sons are the ones who are supposed to carry on the family legacy, while daughters go off and live with her husbands family after they're married. Parents want to know that they will have someone to take care of them when they're old. Also, pregnant women are getting ultrasounds to find out the sex of the baby, if the baby is a girl they immediately get an abortion. These unborn babies are the "missing girls". The leading reason for missing girls is that girls cost more __money__ than the boys. The woman's family has to pay for the wedding of their girl and this is extremely costly. That is the main reason that Indians do not want to have daughters.

This photo resembles the bond between a mother and baby. This resembles a moment that a baby girl will never get to experience with their mother.

Less and less girls are being born compared to boys each decade. This graph perfectly represents the gender imbalance between boys and girls getting worse and worse each decade.

This is a sign put up by the government trying to convince people to have their baby girls and trying to make the ratio between boys and girls more balanced.

This is a pictures of the Global Walk for missing girls in India.

Campaigners in India trying to protect female babies. Protesting against the missing girls.

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Timeline:

 * Became a problem after the 1971 census.
 * After 1971, it became clear that clinics have been detecting and rejecting female fetuses.
 * In 1994, Sex-selection abortion was outlawed by the Pre-Natal Determination Test Act.
 * 20th century people committed Female Infanticide- or people feeding their infants less and not providing them with __healthcare__.
 * In 2006, it was stated that there have been 10 __million__ female abortions in the last 20 years.
 * In 2007, it was stated that 80% of Indian Districts have declining sex ratios.
 * From 2001 to 2011, the boy to girl ratio in India went from 927 girls to every 1000 boys to 914 girls to every 1000 boys.
 * In 2011, India became the fourth most dangerous country in the world for women.

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