What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share
In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local Maharajas believed in education for everybody. The Syrian Catholic Church built schools for boys and girls. And then the Communist party, which took over politics for a period of time, had very strong social policies that benefited women.… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share
What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much middle-class, Indian experts say. This is not happening among the poor; they just have to keep bearing children and hope… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share
Today there's a new report out about how population growth is going down in the United States. Immigrant women are having fewer children. It… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
The whole world population rests on women. You have to start with the woman. And the woman will make her own decisions. If you want to have five or ten children, fine. You can have big families or small families, but you have the family you feel you can afford or feed. In China the one - child policy is… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share
The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the north of… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
It's against the law in India to marry off a girl under the age of 18, as it is in many parts of the… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If a groom's… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
