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Ari Kewalramani

EBSCOhost: SEX SELECTION AND RESTRICTING ABORTION AND SEX DETERMINATION - 0 views

  • Sex selection
  • India
  • fostered by a limiting social structure that disallows women from performing the roles that men perform, and relegates women to a lower status level.
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  • Individual parents
  • benefit concretely from having a son born into the family
  • society, and girls and women as a group, are harmed by the widespread practice of sex selection.
  • reinforces oppression of women and girls.
  • eliminate sex selective abortion
  • decreases women's autonomy rather than increases it.
  • Such practices will turn underground
  • Sex selective infanticide, and slower death by long term neglect, could increase.
  • If abortion is restricted, the burden is placed on women seeking abortions to show that they have a legally acceptable or legitimate reason for a desired abortion, and this seriously limits women's autonomy.
  • better to address the practice of sex selection by elevating the status of women and empowering women so that giving birth to a girl is a real and positive option
  • But, if a ban on sex selective abortion or a ban on sex determination is indeed instituted, then wider social change promoting women's status in society should be instituted simultaneously.
Ari Kewalramani

Sex-selective abortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • It has been argued that by having a one-child policy, China has increased the rate of abortion of female fetuses, thereby accelerating a demographic decline.
  • Baby Gender Mentor have become available for purchase over the Internet.[15] These tests have been criticized for making it easier to perform a sex-selective abortion earlier in a pregnancy.[16] Concerns have also been raised about their accuracy.
  • Gender bias can broadly impact a society, and it is estimated that by 2020 there could be more than 35 million young "surplus males" in China and 25 million in India
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  • In those families where the first two children were girls, the sex ratio of the third child was observed to be 1.51:1 in favor of boys.[
Ari Kewalramani

Missing women of Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • in the form of selective abortion and perhaps even infanticide and female infant neglect - that is the cause of the skewed gender ratio.[6]
  • If the first child was male, then the sex of the subsequent children tended to follow the regular, biologically determined sex pattern
  • However, if the first child was female, the subsequent children had a much higher probability of being male, indicating that conscious parental choice was involved in determining the sex of the child.
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  • preference for boys and the resulting shortage of girls was even more pronounced in the more highly developed Haryana and Punjab regions of India than in poorer areas,
  • high prevalence of this prejudice among the more educated and affluent women (mothers) there.
  • Only recently and in some countries (particularly South Korea) have the development and educational campaigns begun to turn the tide, resulting in more normal gender ratios.[9]
  • Punjab
  • 1980s, girls were not receiving inferior treatment if a girl was born as a first child in a given family, when the parents still had high hopes for obtaining a son later. Subsequent births of girls were however unwelcome, because each such birth diminished a chance of the family having a son.
  • educated women would have fewer offspring, and therefore were under more acute pressure to produce a son as early as possible
  • affluent families opt for an abortion
  • r if a girl is born
  • decrease her chance of survival
  • One reason for parents, even mothers, to avoid daughters
  • As parents grow
  • expect much more help and support from their independent sons, than from daughters, who after getting married become in a sense property of their husbands' families
  • Women are also often practically unable to inherit real estate, so a mother-widow will lose her family's (in reality her late husband's) plot of land and become indigent if she had had only daughters.
  • Poor rural families have meager resources to distribute among their children, which reduces the opportunity to discriminate against girls.[9]
  • South Korea has led to a sweeping change in social attitudes and reduced the preference for sons
  • rapid economic development, combined with policies that seek to promote gender equality
  • sex ratio transition
Kanika Vaish

A Different Kind of Sex Talk With Teens - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • I'm telling my daughters to wait until they are 20 to have sex. I did, and it was a good decision
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      Although, chances are that they won't wait, with the amount of time television promotes sex at a young age.
  • I was recently wrapping up an item to be mailed when I came across an article in the local paper. It said that the teen pregnancy rate for Noble Co. was 33 per cent for girls between 15 and 19.
Ari Kewalramani

BBC NEWS | South Asia | India sex selection doctor jailed - 0 views

  • Audio and video evidence showed the doctor telling one woman that tests had revealed that she was carrying a "female foetus and it would be taken care of".
  • But convictions are rare due to lax and corrupt officials and the slow judicial system.
  • Earlier this year researchers in India and Canada said in the Lancet journal that prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girl births a year.
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  • Indian doctors, however, disputed the report saying pre-birth gender checks had waned since a Supreme Court crackdown in 2001.
  • Experts in India say female foeticide is mostly linked to socio-economic factors.
Ari Kewalramani

Preimplantation sex selection for family balancing in India - Hum Reprod - 0 views

  • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) enables the identification of genetic diseases in the embryo before pregnancy is established, and eliminates the need for possible pregnancy termination after prenatal diagnosis of a genetically affected fetus.
  • Some couples underwent more than one treatment cycle and a total of 42 sex selection cycles was started. All couples already had at least one daughter.
  • the poor survival of non-transferred embryos following cryopreservation and the limited amount of cellular material available for diagnosis.
Kanika Vaish

EBSCOhost: The Truth About Teen Girls - 0 views

  • essarily support one. Despite a minor increase in 2006, the rate of pregnancies among teen girls has been on a downward trend since 1991. Another indicator, the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, is alarmingly high: nearly 1 in 4 girls ages 14 to 19 and nearly 1 in 2 African-American girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But this is the first year such a study has been completed, and the study doesn't separate 14-to-16-year-olds from 17-to-19-year-olds, so it's still unclear which way that trend is heading.
  • Other studies imply that girls, while not exactly chaste, are not behaving in ways that media reports about the hookup culture might lead us to believe. According to the Guttmacher Institute, one-third of surveyed teenagers 15 to 17 had had oral sex, and most of those were not virgins. Of teens ages 15 to 19 who had had oral sex only, two-thirds reported having had only one partner.
  • They don't want to be like the characters in Gossip Girl (only 16% of whose viewers are actually teen girls) or America's Next Top Model; they just want to look like them, to try on that identity.
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  • "They think, If I have a baby, I'll be someone. It gives them an identity." How can Ireland be so sure? She gave birth to daughter Haley, now 3, when she was 15.
  • Once the idea has taken hold, it's hard to shake off, and the fact that the presidential campaign features a pregnant 17-year-old means that the debate about teenage sexuality is growing only more heated. Girlhood sexiness seems to be everywhere: on TV shows and in movies, in advertising, in teen magazines and all over the Internet.
Kanika Vaish

A Different Kind of Sex Talk With Teens - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • 3. Linda Oklahoma November 5th, 2010 1:22 pm I was recently wrapping up an item to be mailed when I came ac
Ari Kewalramani

Abortion, Infanticide Foeticide India - 1 views

  • According to a recent report
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      50 million females have been omitted from the population in India because of discrimination against women.
  • (UNICEF)
  • up to 50 million girls and women are missing from India' s population as a result of systematic gender discrimination in India.
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  • most countries
  • 105 female births for every 100 males.
  • less than 93 women for every 100 men
  • Much of the discrimination is to do with cultural beliefs and social norms
  • norms
  • be challenged if this practice is to stop.
  • ultrasound scanners
  • advertise
  • spend 600 rupees now and save 50,000 rupees later.
  • avoiding a girl,
  • ing a large dowry on the marriage of her daughte
  • a family will avoid pay
  • According to UNICEF
  • the problem is getting worse
  • scientific methods of detecting the sex of a baby and of performing abortions are improving.
  • increasing available in rural areas of India
  • fuelling fears
  • abortion of female foetuses is on the increase
Ari Kewalramani

Gendercide Watch: Female Infanticide - 0 views

  • female infanticide reflects the low status accorded to women in most parts of the world
  • murdering girls is still sometimes believed to be a wiser course than raising them
  • that "Sons are called upon to provide the income; they are the ones who do most of the work in the fields.
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  • igh value given to males decreases the value given to females."
  • dowry and wedding
  • to more than a million rupees
  • average civil servant earns about 100,000 rupees
  • In many cases, of course, the women are not independent agents but merely victims of a dominant family ideology based on preference for male children."
  • 3,500 abortions of female fetuses annually
  • Rajasthan,
  • UNICEF
  • Bombay in 1984 on abortions after prenatal sex determination stated that 7,999 out of 8,000 of the aborted fetuses were females.
  • Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh [states], it is usual for girls and women to eat less than men and boys and to have their meal after the men and boys had finished eating.
  • it is usually boys who have preference in health care
  • clothing
  • morbidity.
  • Indian state governments have sometimes taken measures to diminish the slaughter of infant girls and abortions of female fetuses.
  • f one parent undergoes sterilization, the government will give the family [U.S.] \\$160 in aid per child.
  • tate with one or two daughters and no sons
  • The money will be paid in instalments as the girl goes through school. She will also get a small gold ring and on her 20th birthday, a lump sum of $650 to serve as her dowry or defray the expenses of higher education. Four thousand families enrolled in the first year," with 6,000 to 8,000 expected to join annually (as of 1994
  • suffer
Ari Kewalramani

BBC NEWS | South Asia | India 'loses 10m female births' - 0 views

  • prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girls a year.
  • 1998.
  • among educated women but did not vary according to religion.
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  • more common
  • 1,000 male babies born in India, there were just 933 girls.
  • year 2001
  • They found that there was an increasing tendency to select boys when previous children had been girls
  • preceding child was a girl,
  • ratio of
  • girls to boy
  • 759 to 1,000.
  • fell even further when the two preceding children were both girls.
  • third child born
  • 719 girls to 1,000 boys.
  • for a child following the birth of a male child, the gender ratio was roughly equal.
  • suggested half a million girls were being lost each year.
  • an extra pair of hands on the farm.
  • inferior and a liability - a bride's dowry can cripple a poor family financially.
  • girl child
  • where boys
  • Ultrasound machines must be officially registered but many are now so light and portable, they are hard to monitor.
  • doctors
  • must not tell couples the sex of a foetus, in practice, some just use coded signals instead, our correspondent says.
Ari Kewalramani

Preferring Girls Over Boys - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • South Korea
  • “38 percent of mothers-to-be wanted a daughter, while 31 percent said they preferred a son
  • fathers
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  • 29 percent a son.”
  • 37 percent wanted a daughter
  • Twenty years ago
  • ould decide on the sex of their child
  • 116.5 baby boys for every 100 girls born.
  • 2008,
  • 106.4 boys for every 100 girls
  • within the international average
  • Maybe
  • parents are now less likely to rely on their children for financial support after retirement
  • less necessary to have a son
  • low national birth rate (the lowest in the world) means that parents who are planning just one child believe a girl will care for them emotionally in their old age.
  • Or perhap
  • “it’s more fun bringing up girls than boys.”
Bhavya Puri

Shark fin soup alters an ecosystem - Page 2 - CNN - 0 views

  • Shark finning is not illegal. Taiwan has no law against fins taken from international waters coming into its ports. However, Taiwan does have what it calls a "plan of action" that requires the bodies of the sharks the fins came from to be accounted for and not dumped into the sea.
  • but identifying them and monitoring them and having a regulated fishery is virtually impossible."
  • Taiwan is not alone. Shark finning thrives off weak regulations around the world and only a few countries demand that sharks arrive in port with fins attached.
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  • The fin is one of the most expensive pound-for-pound item from the sea. And the beauty about the fin is that it's very compact ... it doesn't take up your hull and you can make a lot of money from it,"
  • ins can sell for $500 per pound, according to WildAid, which is campaigning for a global ban on shark finning.In recent years, Cocos Island has become another battleground in the fight to save the shark. Ads by GoogleShark Breaching and DivesGreat White Shark Breaching and Cage Diving Trips Gansbaai www.sharkdivingunlimited.com<<<123>>> We recommend You might like: Push begins to halt Pacific shark finning - CNN CNN.comSharks endangered by a bowl of soup CNN OpinionShark researchers study oil impact CNN USMan saves Australian woman during shark attack CNN World onmousedo
Kanika Vaish

Shows promoting teen pregnancy patronize viewers | The Nevada Sagebrush - 0 views

  • While MTV tries desperately to portray “Teen Mom” and “16 and Pregnant” as simply day-in-the-life type shows, like glorified episodes of “True Life,” it is evident that these shows are every bit as preachy as “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” an ABC Family show that is just raging with pro-life messages and Christian value undertones.
  • While MTV’s tactic is meant to be a subliminal public service announcement, having the teen moms repeatedly talk about their inability to practice safe sex (with most girls blaming their boyfriends for not wanting to use condoms) and crying about how they just want to party like regular teens just makes the girls look like buffoons and exposes them for the naïve children they really are.
Kanika Vaish

Sex on TV Increases Teen Pregnancy, Says Report - TIME - 0 views

  • That's why the American Academy of Pediatrics created the Media Matters campaign more than a decade ago to promote awareness within the industry of how influential its TV shows and movies are to youngsters and to alert parents to the critical role they play in monitoring and mediating what their children watch.
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      Some work is being done to raise awareness.
Ben Walters

When Escape Seems Just a Mouse-Click Away - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

  • "I guess I knew I was becoming addicted, but I couldn't stop myself," Kim recalled from a clinic where he was undergoing counseling. "I stopped changing my clothes. I didn't go out. And I began to see myself as the character in my games."
  • Last month, the government -- which opened a treatment center in 2002 -- launched a game addiction hotline. Hundreds of private hospitals and psychiatric clinics have opened units to treat the problem.
  • An estimated 2.4 percent of the population from 9 to 39 are believed to be suffering from game addiction, according to a government-funded survey. Another 10.2 percent were found to be "borderline cases" at risk of addiction -- defined as an obsession with playing electronic games to the point of sleep deprivation, disruption of daily life and a loosening grip on reality. Such feelings are typically coupled with depression and a sense of withdrawal when not playing, counselors say.
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  • The situation has grown so acute that 10 South Koreans -- mostly teenagers and people in their twenties -- died in 2005 from game addiction-related causes, up from only two known deaths from 2001 to 2004, according to government officials. Most of the deaths were attributed to a disruption in blood circulation caused by sitting in a single, cramped position for too long -- a problem known as "economy class syndrome," a reference to sitting in an airplane's smallest seats on long flights.
  • In one instance, a 28-year-old man died in the central city of Taegu last year after reportedly playing an online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks. He finally collapsed in a "PC baang " -- one of the tens of thousands of Internet game cafes that have become as common as convenience stores across South Korea. Users can pop in to these small, smoky dens -- with walls covered in gothic game posters -- for about $1 an hour, day or night.
  • "Game addiction has become one of our newest societal ills," said Son Yeongi, president of the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity, which offers government-funded counseling. "Gaming itself is not the problem. Like anything, this is about excessive use."
  • Experts are seeing more cases of game addiction in many industrialized nations -- particularly the United States and Japan. But sociologists and psychiatrists have identified South Korea as the epicenter of the problem.
  • That is in part because young people here suffer from acute stress as they face educational pressures said to far exceed those endured by their peers in other countries. It is not uncommon, for instance, for South Korean students to be forced by their parents into four to five hours of daily after-school tutoring. With drug abuse and teenage sex considered rare in the socially conservative country, escape through electronic games can be a hugely attractive outlet.
  • At the same time, South Korea boasts an unparalleled gaming culture. In 2000 in Seoul, the capital, South Koreans inaugurated the World Cyber Games -- a sort of gaming Olympics that now draws players from 67 nations. Professional South Korean gamers can earn more than $100,000 a year in domestic and international competitions.
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