Am 10.04.2011 13:36, schrieb Udhay Shankar N:
On 10-Apr-11 3:50 PM, Bernhard Krieger wrote:
Udhay, how much of a "financial burden" do you expect your daughter will be
when she comes into marriageable age in, say, 15+ years considering the current sex ratio
and considering that the topic will be more prominent in the 2020s?
I don't expect her to be a financial burden, actually. Was that your point?
Indeed.
Wouldn`t you be more worried if your son had difficulties to find a nice,
smart, educated, etc. girl-friend / wife?
Isn`t dowry a set of exchanges that might one day tip "in favour" for daughters
once people start to observe difficulties in their neighbourhood / kingroup to find wifes?
Some piece of this is already happening, and has been happening for a
while. I wonder how long it will be before it shows up in sex ratios.
Apparently it does not. I was not aware of this.
Some more (generally depressing) background reading:
Thanks for the references.
1. A Socio-cultural Study of the Declining Sex Ratio in Delhi and
Haryana, http://nipccd.nic.in/reports/esratio.pdf
Interesting reading. I just skipped through the executive summary. The
point most relevant / problematic I came across:
"The study has revealed the very shocking phenomena of high awareness of
the declining sex ratio in the states as also its various serious
repercussions. Yet a girl child is not valued, pointing towards an
alarming volatile situation that would be hard to deal with in the times
to come." (p. XX)
Bernhard
