What Cause Infanticide in India Become a “Epidemic” (GASB20H3F)

What causes Infanticide in India become an “Epidemic.”
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What causes infanticide in India become an “epidemic.”
Infanticide is the intentional act of killing a newborn. According to ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Dubof"given" : "Renu", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Dube", "given" : "Reena", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Bhatnagar", "given" : "Rashmi", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2016" ] ] }, "page" : "73-86", "title" : "Women Without Choice : Female Infanticide and the Rhetoric of Overpopulation in Postcolonial India", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "27" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=4cb30b0e-cb93-4bd8-b8f7-24577890f5d5" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Dube, Dube, & Bhatnagar, 2016)", "manualFormatting" : "Dube, Dube, and Bhatnagar (2016)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Dube, Dube, & Bhatnagar, 2016)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Dube, Dube, & Bhatnagar, 2016)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }Dube, Dube, and Bhatnagar (2016), postcolonial India had witnessed selective killings of female fetuses despite increasing concerns from Indian women-led campaigns against the act. India is a patriarchal community with the number of males exceeding that of females. Infanticide increased in the 20th century as technological innovations such as ultrasound were introduced in India in the 1970s to determine the sex of unborn babies ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "ISBN" : "0047-2328", "ISSN" : "00472328", "PMID" : "2005519064", "abstract" : "There is now sufficient historical demographic analysis of India, Japan and China to show that infanticide has traditionally been employed to shape families. The driving force has often been the need to preserve family property from division by inheritance or dispersal by the payment of high dowries, although, especially in China, current subsistence problems have also been important. The practice has often been more frequent among the rich than the poor and may have increased as economic advancement became more possible. Nevertheless, it is probable that high child mortality ensured that most families did not have to practise infanticide, which probably played only a modest role in determining the level of population equilibrium. The factor making infanticide more likely than in hunter-gatherer societies is the possession of land. The Judaeo-Christian-Muslim outlawing of infanticide provided the incentive both to try to eliminate the practice and to record its existence.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Caldwell", "given" : "John C.", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Caldwell", "given" : "Bruce K.", "...