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March 15th, 2005

It's a Girl! Here's $2,300!

Posted At: 7:10pm by Sandra Ostapowich
State Government of India Gives Cash Incentives to Raise Daughters The southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India is offering to pay families $2,300 when their daughter turns 20 years old as an incentive to encourage families to keep their female babies. The sex ratio of females to males in India is 927 to 1,000, making it one of the lowest female-to-male ratios in the world, reports Reuters. In an attempt to increase the number of female babies born, the government of India has also outlawed sex-determination tests as a result of the increase in couples aborting female fetuses. In addition, Andhra Pradesh government is implementing a monthly scholarship of $29 for schoolgirls studying in grades 9 to 12 as a way to encourage poor parents to send their daughters to school, reports the Associated Press. Kinda makes you glad we live in the USA, doesn't it?
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Re: It's a Girl! Here's $2,300!

Posted On: March 15th, 2005 at 8:11pm by femlemtwo
Dude... thats slightly messed up. If it takes money to motivate people to keep their baby girls, there is something WAY wrong. How do they know that is what they will use the money for? If those people were American, you could almost gurantee that that money would not go to the baby girls. That is just really sad.

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