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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Marathwada, love for sons makes life miserable for daughters -Radheshyam Jadhav

In Marathwada, love for sons makes life miserable for daughters -Radheshyam Jadhav

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published Published on Jan 2, 2019   modified Modified on Jan 2, 2019
-The Hindu Business Line

Girl child seen as a burden in the region that reels under drought

Thirty-eight-year-old Meera Ekhande from Beed district in Marathwada region of Maharashtra had given birth to seven girls and aborted two, but her family kept insisting on having a son. In her tenth pregnancy, Meera was delivered of a stillborn boy and she died because of excessive bleeding. But this is not an isolated case in this drought-affected region.

Though preference for a son is a pan-India phenomenon, in the drought-hit Marathawada, sons are treated as saviours and daughters are looked down as a heavy burden. The dowry system is quite strong and pervasive in the region and many farmers have ended their lives because of loans they had taken to pay dowry for their daughters, says Sunanda Kharate, a local activist.

Dowry system

Rates of dowry range from Rs.1 lakh to Rs.50 lakh here. Active sex selection via foetal abortions is widely prevalent in many parts of Marathwada. But at the same time, parents keep having children till they get a son or a desired number of sons. This son “meta” preference has led to multiple number of children in families in the drought zone.

Medical officers in government-run hospital in Majalgaon where Meera died on Friday said that she died of excessive bleeding and women who are pregnant for two or more times have higher chances of excessive bleeding. Meera had conceived on the insistence of family members and her husband, but police have registered a case of accidental death.

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The Hindu Business Line, 1 January, 2019, https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/in-marathwada-love-for-sonsmakes-life-miserable-for-daughters/article25883636.ece?homepage=true


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