Small steps

I suppose this is a step in the right direction or double entendre

There are going to be a lot of people confused by this story, so I thought it would be a good

idea to explain. There are many countries across the globe to which having a male child is the ultimate goal, especially first-born children. It is thought that this will help with the longevity of the family name and continue to bring honor to the family. Some of these countries cultures also believe that it can also be bad luck to give birth to a girl if the first-born (or at all for some). In these instances, it has become normal, although the number of these events has significantly dropped in the past twenty years, for families to kill this first-born daughter so that no one will know that they were ‘unlucky,’ hoping that the event will help with the production of a male first-born. Now, I find this disgusting and ridiculous for many reasons. The most obvious is logic based, how are you going to have more children if the population of women is so low. As well, having a child at all is a blessing, no matter the gender. There are thousands of families who are incapable of having children at all, and this ‘custom’ is a slap in their face.

The other issue here is that India has the largest population of any country on the planet

(>16% of the population of the world), having surpassed China a year or two ago. With such a large population the government has begun discussing taking the approach that the Chinese have already instigated by ‘strongly suggesting’ that families should only have one or two children. Luckily, there appear to be many in the Indian government who think that may not be the best way of doing things so things have been stunted at talks. This new reward, said to ‘boost the female population’ doesn’t just do what they’re telling their people, it will also trim the population of the country significantly as poorer families wish to cash in on the ‘reward.’ Yet, you have to also recognize the inadvertent plus to this, the female population will boom, and in the future, perhaps, this will lead to some equality across gender borders; which is paramount.