Child Needs More Health

Child Needs More Health

While in most developed countries, there is little if any discrimination between the girl and the boy child as far as nutrition is concerned, a very large proportion of girl child population in developing and economically weaker countries suffers from malnutrition. This is a fact corroborated by statistics, the result of researches of various agencies. But here the factors are completely cultural, in Asian, Latin American and some African cultures, a premium is placed on the boy baby and his upbringing is better monitored than a girl’s. An extreme result is female infanticide or even killing of female fetus in the womb itself. In basically agrarian societies, no one wants to be burdened with an unproductive member in the family, in partially agrarian cultures, no one wants to have a girl whose social status is far below that of the boy and in marrying whom off, the family is often crippled by debt. So, infanticide or feticide is a better option. But more on that later