The most intriguing line of the story is, “In India women who fail to produce sons are beaten, raped or killed so that men can remarry in the hope of procuring a more productive wife.”
If I remember correctly from Biology class, the male sperm determines the sex of the child. So these uneducated morons are killing the wrong person. The man is the one to blame for female offspring. Now as a male having said that, I could not fathom life without my two wonderful daughters.
When I was visiting a Muslim friend who had had her first child, she was busy showing off her baby boy. I asked her what her husband thought of the baby. “It’s a boy, so he’s happy. And I’m relieved. Now if the rest are girls, it doesn’t matter, because I’ve had a son.”
Turns out she was one of four girls and had one brother. Having had one son, there wouldn’t be pressure to have babies until there was a boy or abuse for failure to produce a son, as her mother had faced.