Eunuchs adopt girl child to eradicate female foeticide
I might be hurting many a patriotic sentiments when I say that, we have no rights whatsoever to eel proud at the development that India has made in the 60 years post independence, because the situation of female foeticide is still no better. Till date a girl child is considered as a liability for the family and till date she has to bear the brunt of being born as a female child.Â
Saying this, I am no way neglecting the efforts that have been made to make situation better for girls, but still there’s a long way to go.
If we have certain parents who didn’t think even once about their own innocence daughter before taking her life, then we also have the representatives of a section of a society which has borne a lot of discrimination before fighting and winning their own sytaus…we are talking about the Eunuchs. With a view to bear the torch to preventing female foeticide, eunuchs in Madhya Pradesh have come forward to adopt female babies of indigent parents.
Poonam John, is one such daring an eunuch from Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, who has appealed to the poverty stricken parents to hand over their girl childs to them, rather than exposing then to foeticide. She has already adopted six-month-old Roshani, and four and a half years old Sonu.Â
‘Their life is saved and I have got the opportunity to enjoy motherhood which would have not been possible otherwise,’ said the happy mother Poonam after adopting the babies. Joining hands with her is Suraiya Nayak, from Bhopal who has recently adopted a baby girl and has promised to keep the away from singing or dancing like eunuchs to earn a livelihood and to educate her rather.
Or those who feel that there’s still some traits of humanity left over inside, should take inspiration from Poonam and let their own daughter live…for this is the least that they can do to eradicate this social evil from the Indan society.
July 12th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
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