SKIRMISHER

Photo of an Indian baby girl her parents haven’t yet killed. Maybe.

Because families in India prefer having sons than daughters, female babies are often killed or starved to death by their parents. So the government in India, finally growing some brain and a glimmer of what can be called a “proactive conscience,” is “unveiling yet another proposal to try to stem the tide of sex-selection abortions and female infanticides there.”

The solution: the government will pay for these female babies’ expenses. Now countless Indian parents can now screw every night with the government’s reassurance that they won’t have to be financially responsible for the female product of what they love doing.

Female children are seen in many tribal areas as a hindrance and many girl babies are simply taken to remote areas and left to die.

Jarpula Peerya Nayak, a 27 year old father said “My wife gave birth to a female baby for the third time, a daughter is a burden and we decided not to feed her. So she died.”

“It is very difficult to bring up girls and marry them off,” he said, according to local press reports from Hyderabad. He’s reportedly killed another female baby as well.

Last month, his cousin J. Ravi and wife Sujatha let their newborn baby starve to death.

“My daughter died two days after birth since we did not feed her,” Ravi told AsiaNews. “We already have two girl children and can’t afford to have one more.”

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