Engish Project Female Infanticide

This is the draft for my english final. (apparently its too long i have to cut it down by a minute) for the final im doing female infanticide.

Translation-

"In India for centuries newborn baby girls are dying after their birth. In Tamil Nadu, the southwest part of India, unwanted babies are being killed even today. In remote villages killing of babies (infanticide) is common. It is practiced in the name of tradition, superstition and poverty".

Testimony:
"I didn't want to kill my daughter. But my neighbors came and told me: "You have three girls, you have to kill one. Two are enough. How are you going to feed and marry them?"
My family used to say that girls are useless.
But I couldn't kill her. She was gorgeous, very beautiful. She was not destined to die... She was born in our house at 4 am. Our neigbors said "we'll kill her with smoke solution". They prepared a solution with crushed smoke plant leaves. I didn't want to do it. In the morning I prayed to God and I gave her one spoon of the smoke solution. I was miserable. I layed down next to her but I couldn't look at her. The baby didn't die at once, she died in the evening. When I saw that she was still alive, I couldn't bear it anymore - I told my mother to save her, to give her sugarwater so she can wake up. My mother gave her it with her hands but it was too late... She died... My mother buried her in the garden behind our house. I couldn't do it myself. Later I planted flowers and a tree in that spot. She would have been 10 years old today. I never forgot about her. It is impossible. How can I ever forget her... (sigh)

In Tamil Nadu 3,000 newborn girls are being killed every year. It is illegal according to be law with a maximum penalty of life time prison term but authorities haven't been able to eliminate the practice of infanticide. Here there is still a wide-spread belief that if you kill your daughter, the next child will be a boy.

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• infanticide
• india
• china
• obama
• babies
• daughters
• tradegy
• women's
• rights
• social

[Peanutlaady]

Sorry Guys but it takes both a man and a woman to have a child. A man can't do it alone. He needs a womans help to have a baby.

[3909clancy]

This wont change till women themselves change it!!!