infanticide in india
Female infanticide as defined by the dictionary is the practice of killing a new born infant girl because she is unwanted by her own family members. This is a very common practice in the rural areas of South India and some North Indian states also. ... It is said in India that raising a daughter is like raising another man’s cow. ... Since Indian law doesn’t permit child infanticide anymore, the legal way to kill a baby is by swindling her in a wet towel as soon as she is born so she gets pneumonia and dies.