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HYDERABAD, India - A southern Indian state is offering to pay $2,300 to encourage families to have a single girl, part of an effort to reverse a dramatic drop in the number of female babies being born.
The money, in the form of an insurance policy, will be paid to the girl when she turns 20, provided both parents undergo birth control operations, Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, the top elected official in Andhra Pradesh state, said Tuesday.
A large number of Indian parents, especially in villages, prefer boys to girls because boys are believed to work more and help earn money. Marrying off girls also means paying dowries.
The preference for boys among parents has skewed the sex ratio in India, a nation of more than 1 billion people. The number of girls per 1,000 boys declined in India from 945 in 1991 to 927 in 2001, according to the national census carried out that year.
The decline in girls being born is attributed largely to prenatal sex-determiniation testing, which allows couples to abort female fetuses.
India's government has outlawed prenatal...
The money, in the form of an insurance policy, will be paid to the girl when she turns 20, provided both parents undergo birth control operations, Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, the top elected official in Andhra Pradesh state, said Tuesday.
A large number of Indian parents, especially in villages, prefer boys to girls because boys are believed to work more and help earn money. Marrying off girls also means paying dowries.
The preference for boys among parents has skewed the sex ratio in India, a nation of more than 1 billion people. The number of girls per 1,000 boys declined in India from 945 in 1991 to 927 in 2001, according to the national census carried out that year.
The decline in girls being born is attributed largely to prenatal sex-determiniation testing, which allows couples to abort female fetuses.
India's government has outlawed prenatal...