Neglect Of Female Children Research Articles

Time to end daughter aversion in India

Time to end daughter aversion in India

Risk factors in relation to neurological morbidity in children: a study on perception of health professionals and parents

Background: Morbidity resulting from various neurological illnesses is a common reason for seeking regular help from health care facilities. There is increased requirement of awareness about neurological, psychiatric, physical, and developmental disorders in the community. Present study was undertaken to assess the community awareness and perception of risk factors for neurodevelopmental disabilities in children.Methods: The study was conducted with an objective of finding out level of awareness of a group of young health professionals and parents regarding their perception of likely factors that contribute for the occurrence of neurodevelopmental disabilities. This was a cross sectional study with discussion between the participants of various groups by using the method of Focused Group Discussions. Perceived risk factors as emerged during the discussions were free-listed and categorized under Biological/Familial/Genetic factors, Environmental factors, Socio-cultural factors and Economic/ Financial factors.Results: Lack of prenatal care, prematurity, unaffordability of care, low birth weight, malnutrition, infections and lack of maternal education emerged as important risk factors for neuromorbidity as perceived by the participants. Participants also enumerated insufficient knowledge on preventable risk factors, lack of trained manpower and neglect of female children as important contributors to occurrence of developmental disabilities.Conclusions: It is of paramount importance to identify the community perception of the risk factors for developmental disability which gives us an estimate of awareness among people and caregivers. Interventions tailored to the needs based on the level of community awareness help us in better channelling of preventive programmes and strategies.

The Unintended Effects of a Ban on Sex-Selective Abortion on Infant Mortality: Evidence from India

India has long struggled with persistent problems of sex-selective abortions and the neglect of female children. In 1996, the Pre-Natal Diagnostics Techniques Act was implemented to stop the practices of prenatal sex determination and selective abortions. This paper examines whether the law has been effective in reducing gender imbalance, and in turn potentially exacerbated post-natal discrimination against newborn girls. Using retrospective birth history data from the Indian District Level Household Survey (2002–2004), we exploit a natural experiment involving a variation in the timing of the law across states. We analyse the differential impact of the law on newborn sex ratios and infant mortality rates. Our findings indicate that the law significantly increased the likelihood of a female birth, improving female-to-male sex ratios at birth. We also find that it was generally associated with no change in the relative mortality of infant girls.

Les variations regionales de la discrimination et de la surmortalite des petites filles en Inde

A partir des donnees de l’enquete nationale indienne sur la sante familiale (1992-1993), cet article decrit les variations regionales de la discrimination dont sont victimes les petites filles en matiere de soins de sante en Inde, discrimination qui constitue le principal determinant de la surmortalite, de l’ordre de 60-65 %, qui touche les filles dans les Etats du nord et du centre-nord du pays. Il existe un gradient regional d’inegalite entre garcons et filles en matiere de mortalite des enfants qui est bien mis en valeur quand on classe les enfants par rang de naissance parmi les enfants de meme sexe. Dans les regions du Nord et du Centre-Nord, la mortalite des filles excede celle des garcons de meme rang de naissance de plus d’un tiers pour le premier enfant et davantage aux rangs superieurs. Dans les regions du Sud et de l’Ouest, les indices de negligence a l’egard de la sante des petites filles et les niveaux correspondants de surmortalite juvenile feminine sont tres faibles. Face aux contraintes culturelles liees au systeme patriarcal, le developpement tend a reduire quelque peu les inegalites entre sexes en matiere de sante et de mortalite des enfants ; mais on peut aussi observer, en sens inverse, que les discriminations sexuelles sont susceptibles de ralentir le processus de developpement.

The Neglect of Female Children and Childhood Sex Ratios in Nineteenth-Century America: a Review of the Evidence

Antebellum census records show that there were slightly higher than average numbers of male children in the western states and territories of the United States and slightly lower than average numbers of male children in eastern areas. It has been suggested that this imbalance was due to the economically inspired neglect of female children in rural and frontier areas, but this hypothesis does not hold up to close inspection. Better explanations are that more boys were born in, survived childhood in, or moved to western regions.

The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India. Barbara D. MillerWomen, Work, and Property in North-West India. Ursula SharmaWomen's Quest for Power: Five Indian Case Studies. Devaki Jain , Nalini Singh , Malini ChandWe Will Smash This Prison: Indian Women in Struggle. Gail Omvedt

<i>The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India</i>. Barbara D. Miller<i>Women, Work, and Property in North-West India</i>. Ursula Sharma<i>Women's Quest for Power: Five Indian Case Studies</i>. Devaki Jain , Nalini Singh , Malini Chand<i>We Will Smash This Prison: Indian Women in Struggle</i>. Gail Omvedt

The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India.

The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India.

Indian women: well-being and survival.

The authors examine sex differentials in sustenance and survival in developing countries using the example of India. Lower female life expectancy at birth and the declining ratio of females to males are discussed as evidence of female deprivation. Consideration is given to the feeding, survival, and neglect of female children, to differences in use of medical facilities by sex, and to regional differences by state. This pattern of discrimination is found to persist even in urban areas.

The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India, by Barbara D. Miller

The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India, <i>by Barbara D. Miller</i>

The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India.

The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India.