| India has a patriarchal society where men are seen as role models who are supposed to look after their parents in old age. Giving birth to a girl child is seen by many as "watering the neighbours' plants" and birth of a male child is looked upon as a feather in the cap with great pride and joy. Female infanticide, or the killing of female babies, was a practice prevailing in India long ago. Though this has now been abolished legally, we find that it is still practised in a different and more sophisticated manner. Females are being now being killed even before they are born that we call as female foeticide. |