I’m posting a link to this blog, The Daughters of India, by Barbara Raisbeck. I’m not posting this because it has anything to do with interracial relationships, but because I was intrigued and then thoroughly heartbroken and wanted to increase awareness. I had no idea any of this was going on. I just wanted to pass it along in the hopes that it helps someone – anyone.
She also includes a post with a link to 50 Million Missing - also very worth your time to visit and learn.
I am thankful every day as a woman to be born and living where I am. I’m blessed that my daughter lives here.
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Edited to add: Thanks to Devaki’s blog, I also found these two web sites, which are profound:
From Indian Homemaker: Can an Indian Daughter say, “Mere paas maa hai!”?
And Unchaahi: Crying for Love
Thanks for sharing these websites/blogs. It’s very disturbing yet important information to know!!!
I read Barbara Raisebeck’s interview with the author of 50 Million Missing (http://barbararaisbeck.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/interview-with-rita-banerji-of-50-million-missing/) and that led me to an online petition to stop female genocide in India. (http://gopetition.com/petitions/stop-female-genocide-in-india.html) I signed it and forwarded info to my friends and family.
By: Casteless Girl on June 30, 2008
at 6:51 pm
You know what’s ironic? I think that for international adoptions, girls are preferred. So if you say you don’t care what sex child you get, they’ll automatically assign you a boy because they have a harder time placing them. Everybody wants girls. So there’s all these people out there who want baby girls and they’re being routinely killed.
Did you read that article from Indian Homemaker where she describes the mom who took the sword she was supposed to kill her baby with and threatened her villagers with it if any of them tried to harm her baby? I couldn’t decide whether to cry or clap!
I was reading (National Geographic I think??) recently about how in some places (I swear it was India and China, or one or the other… bah!) people are stealing girls from other villages because they don’t have enough to marry in their own (because of the baby killings). I’ll try to find the article and post it.
By: colorblindcupid on July 1, 2008
at 6:22 pm
I read a story on the BBC website last week that some areas of the Punjab have only 300 girls to every 1000 boys. And that’s amongst higher caste families.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7466916.stm
I find it chilling. And, apparently, it sometimes happens here in the UK as well.
By: watchthestars on July 1, 2008
at 6:42 pm
This defines irony,when all you want is a male child and then there is no one to to marry because all your neighbors want male children too.The USA is not the only country where the people are more concerned what I want,then what I need.
By: joseph witten on July 6, 2008
at 9:05 am