Pukar (A female foeticide Film) Punjabi

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Uploaded by on Dec 18, 2007

a film on female foeticide / infanticide.

voice over ( Warning ) language Punjabi by rajesh vedprakash. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rajesh-Vedprakash/116474025067233


Female infanticide is the practice of selective infanticide of female infants; one common method is child abandonment. Abandoning a child of the undesired sex outside legal adoption is called sex selective abandonment

In 2005, 90 million women were estimated to be missing in seven Asian countries alone, apparently due to sex-selective abortion.The existence of the practice appears to be determined by culture, rather than by economic conditions, because such deviations in sex ratios do not exist in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Sex-selective abortion was rare before the late 20th century, because of the difficulty of determining the sex of the fetus before birth, but ultrasound has made such selection easier. However, prior to this, parents would alter family sex compositions through infanticide. It is believed to be responsible for at least part of the skewed birth statistics in favor of males in mainland China, India, Taiwan, and South Korea.

The practice of female deselection in India could be attributed to socioeconomic reasons. There is a belief by certain people in India that female children are inherently less worthy because they leave home and family when they marry, a system known to anthropologists as patrilocality. There is also a clear link in modern day India with the success of Family planning, where by couples only have 1 or 2 children, and wish to ensure that they have a male child - as opposed to older times when they could consider having several children in the hopes of a male child.

In some countries, including India, it is currently illegal to determine the sex of a child during pregnancy using ultra-sound scans. Laboratories are prohibited to reveal the fetus's sex during such scans. While most established labs comply with the law, determined persons can find a cheaper lab that would tell them. Like the Chinese, the Indians also use the postnatal alternative, which is sex-selective infanticide

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  • bravo bravo

  • God bless!!

  • Very important video! Thanks for sharing, Rajesh! Great job, my friend!

  • Yes Elisa as female foeticide is a greatest sin. ~rajesh

  • Oh my gosh! That little girl at the end looked like me when I was young! lol

  • you still look like her Isabelle God bless!! ~rajesh

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  • The makers of this film created pure genius

    in their communication about female foeticide

    in India.

  • Woman give birth to Great Kings......

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  • Patriarchy places no value on a woman's life. China, India, and pretty much all countries around the world are horrific patriarchies. Since women are needed to carry the next generation, you will see many of these men fade away into extinction.

  • actually in punjab mostaly 99% people want the boys .plz give the birth to daughter

  • This is so sad, i once saw a documentary about this where an indian woman had given birth to twin girls and she fed them poison. when the interviewer asked her what she did then she said she just waited until they stopped screaming then buried them. i was horrified.

  • nice

  • very beautiful rajesh. god bless. peace.

    5 stars

  • Thank you always.

  • awesome

  • Very curious and wise film !

    Peace and love for You!

  • God bless!!

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