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To be able to grow into self confident, fearless and active women, a girl must be nurtured in an atmosphere where she can be valued. However, for the average girl child in India. her prospects of all round healthy development are severely constrained. Born into a socially inhospitable environment, a girl is considered to be an expense - someone who will never contribute to the family income and at the time of her marriage will take large assets as dowry. So deeply entrenched is the ideology of sun preference, that a mother not only hopes and prays for a boy but actually fears the birth of a daughter. In India, girls are socialized from the very beginning to accept the ideology of make supremacy, which makes them a prey to discriminatory practices. This means that not only girl are socially unequipped to question the injustices done them, but in the absence of models of role and conduct, they actually propagate the dominant social and cultural values which are against their interests. Large number of the girl are allowed to die because of malnutrition and disease, which are not properly treated. Children who are working and are on the street are know as children. A street child may be defined as a minor for whom the street has become his or her habitual abode and who is without adequate protection.

  1. How the birth of a girl is celebrated in our society?
    1. Tears are shed on her birth
    2. Celebrations are there on her birth
    3. Her birth is considedered to be an expense in future
    4. Her birth is considered to be good in terms of a mother
Correct Option: C

The birth of a girl in our society is not celebrated as the birth of a male child is celebrated. The birth of a girl is supposed to be a burden in the family.



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