Re: Hum do, hamare do - only with a boy
- From: "harmony" <aka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:54:42 -0500
rubbish. the damn commie times of india.
we don't need mommedan commie researchers to make judgements on hindu
society, do we?
"Mobius" <mobius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Times of India Online
India Hum do, hamare do - only with a boy
Radha Sharma
[ 29 Aug, 2006 2314hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
AHMEDABAD: Gujaratis are increasingly embracing the 'Hum do,
hamare do' slogan of family planning. But small family is a happy family
only if at least one of the children is a son.
Statistics of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)
2005-2006
in Gujarat reveal that 94.8 per cent women are happy with the 'Hum do
hamare
do' concept only if both their children are sons, 90.1 per cent don't want
more children if at least one of their two children is a male child. But
51.2 per cent families with two daughters felt their families were not yet
complete and wanted to have more children!
These findings have raised the hackles of sociologists who feel
that the strong preference for a male child in Gujarat coupled with a
tendency to have smaller families may sound the death knell for the girl
child that is already gasping for breath in the state.
"This is a clear indication that there is a strong preference
for the male child in the Gujarati society", said Irfan Khan, research
director of Taleem Research Foundation.
Gujarat has an alarmingly skewed sex ratio of 878 girls per
1,000 boys in the state which is largely attributed to people wanting boys
over girls. It has also been recently revealed in the NFHS survey that the
family size in Gujarat is shrinking what with the Total Fertility Rate
declining from 2.4 in 1999 to 2.1 in year 2005-06.
"This is a dangerous trend. Girls would become all the more
scarce if people want smaller families and still hanker after sons.
Awareness campaigns only will not do. The government and the society will
have to do more and offer incentives for parents with two girls to inspire
people to give birth to daughters", says sociologist Gaurang Jani.
If you thought there was difference in thinking of the people
urban and rural areas, you would be mistaken. When it comes to one's
individual family, the urban and rural people think alike--they all want a
son.
"In the rural areas, 50 per cent women with two daughters want
to have more children while it is 47 per cent in urban areas. If one
thought
that the modern, educated women in the urban areas would think
differently,
it is not the case", Khan said.
"We have experienced that 98 per cent of families that have
only
daughters do not want to adopt permanent family planning procedures for
want
of a son. Some would not stop even after three, four, five girls", says
Suresh Maratha, branch manager of Family Planning Association of India
(FPAI), Ahmedabad.
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