I wonder when this will ever end.

very sad ~ my prayers & heart go out to all the children.

I realize the cultural differences here... but for humanity's sake... is this behaviour befitting Divine entities? I say not...

Appalling that this is still going on in parts of what is otherwise to be considered the "Civilized World"

as terrible as people think it sounds I think that abortions for girl foetuses should be allowed there, my reasoning? go ahead and in 20 years there will be only males and their family lines will die out as well. I know, that isn't a solution either. I do not think that there will be a solution to this problem until religions, governments and cultures change. It will not be until the small minds of religious zealots treat women as equals instead of necessary property.... and of course that will never happen- they have too much monarchical power to lose. Don't think that this train of thought is only in other parts of the world. I am an american and my mother never wanted me because I was not the son that she had always hoped for. In the early 1960's though it was almost impossible to get an abortion here or I am sure that she would have had one. She let me know about her "misfortune" of having a girl, in different abusive ways, every day of my life- until I moved out at the age of 17. So see it is not only males that think this way. My mother was reared in an extremely religious household that taught that males were the heads of the household and should be looked up to for everything and should be treated as the lord and master second only to god. I do not subscribe to any of these mainstream religions myself. And do I think differently about abortions since I know my mother could have aborted me? No I do not. I am sure that my spirit would have found some other way to come to be on this earth. There is no quick answer to this horrific problem, just an easy one- STOP IT NOW. but of course the ones that are killing girl children are not reading stuff like this nor do they care.