On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:43 PM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 10 Apr 2011 2:39:11 pm Stephanie Das Gupta wrote: >> Women have proven they can do just as well as men, if not better, in >> many levels. Why should we feel that women or girl children are so >> insignificant that they can just be tossed away. >> > > Apart from making it a criminal offence to even detect the sex of a child pre- > natally I think legislation to favor the girl child has to be enacted. > Incentives must be given for girl children - like free education - or even > payment of a sum of money to the family in exchange for ensuring that the girl > actually attends school regularly. Laws that entitle daughters to ancestral > property are a powerful tool. >
How about abolishing arranged marriages ? Isnt that the problem ... parents getting involved in a marriage contract involving 2 other adults.... and subsequent chain of cultural imposition.
