According to S. Baldauf, in “Study: Selective –sex abortion claims 500,000 girls a year”, in India, there are a lot of women who must abort babies. They use ultrasound to know what sex it is. The prenatal selection and selective abortion is a custom in India. This custom is around all the religious groups. However, most commonly it is around educated women. There are many results; one of those is social repercussions. The sex ratio will be skewed. The female feticide is most common for India’s elite. Some activists say female feticide is wrong in order to criticize Indian society. The use of ultrasound should be to check birth defects, not gender. Bishnoi says the educated women are more likely to decide on babies’ gender. However Ms. Bishnoi says the failure is because of a society, not women. Some of the number of female abortions might be exaggerated.

In most Asian countries, they want to bear boys. If they still have this attitude, the gender imbalance problem might be bigger. We should find solution about this problem. The government should make a law about abortion, schools should teach students about gender ratio’s importance, and parents should have responsibility for their children in their mind.

First, the government should make a law about abortion. For example, most countries do not have laws about abortion. People go to a hospital use ultrasound to check baby’s gender. If gender is not a male, they might abort their baby. It is too cruel. If government makes a law about abortion, people might not be able to do that so easily. For example, in Germany, they have a law about women having abortions. They never cannot do that. They think doing abortion is very cruel. The government should do like Germany to save the babies’ lives.

Second, schools should teach students about gender ratio’s importance. At one time, girls could not go to school to study, but now they can. School’s action is very important for student. They should teach them real. For example, when a teacher teaches students, they need to tell them that now the gender is imbalanced, because many people are just bearing boys. If they do not do like this, the students might think they must bear the boy. Their culture has always thought that just boys are important.

Finally, parents should have responsibility for their children in their minds, whatever the baby’s gender. In more developed countries, people think the gender is not important for them, because in their mind they think the most important thing is that they have a baby, not what gender the baby has. They are happy they have their own children. On the other hand, in less developed countries, people think just a boy can help them, and boys can make them happy. They had this attitude 100 years ago. Now it is 2008; people should change their mind from the past. Whether girl or boy they are your children.

In conclusion, most people think the gender problem is because of culture. It is true, but the other reason is women’s attitude. So, we should discard the wrong attitude. We can do such as government make a law about abortion, schools should teach students about gender ratio’s importance, and parents should have responsibility for their children in their mind. It might be able to solve the problem.


Reference

Baldauf, S. (2006, January 13). Study: Selective-sex abortion claims 500,000 girls a year. Csmonitor.com. Retrieved July 10, 2008, from http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0113/p01s04-wosc.htm