2010-06-05
Daughter Elimination: Cradle Baby Scheme in Tamil Nadu
Publication
Publication
Economic and Political Weekly: a journal of current economic and political affairs , Volume 45 - Issue 23 p. 17- 20
Tamil Nadu’s two decade old Cradle Baby Scheme tries to ensure that female babies who would otherwise have been killed are given up for adoption. Civil society activists are not happy with the scheme because they feel that it only encourages parents to abandon female babies and is not a substitute for tackling the crime of sex selection and female foeticide. However, until the girl child is welcome in families, such a scheme will be needed.
| Additional Metadata | |
|---|---|
| hdl.handle.net/1765/22285 | |
| ISS Staff Group 1: Economics of Sustainable Development | |
| Economic and Political Weekly: a journal of current economic and political affairs | |
| Organisation | International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) |
|
Srinivasan, S., & Bedi, A. S. (2010). Daughter Elimination: Cradle Baby Scheme in Tamil Nadu. Economic and Political Weekly: a journal of current economic and political affairs, 45(23), 17–20. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/22285 |
|
