India has been the home of 1/3 rd of the ten-million child-brides in the world. The desire for male-child as a legacy in India is institutionalised by existing hierarchical cultural understanding. This has led to female foeticide, female infanticide and also homicides of wife and daughters of the families. In September 1994, PC and PNDT Act (pre-conception and pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act)...
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