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To: Ahda who wrote (7214)	8/18/1999 11:22:00 AM
From: Cynic 2005	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81177

<<In India new born girls are not prized but frequently left on the streets. >> I wonder how you got to this opinion. May be there were some isolated incidents like that. You assersion is same as saying: "In America, to live a better life for themselves, mothers kill their children by throwing them in to the lakes." Remember Susan Smith of SC? <<A portion of the populous still have engrained in them archaic beliefs that females are not as capable as males but incubators.>> This is a true statment, IMO. But I believe that in any country of the world, including the US of A, you can find that "portion of the populous!" <<The custom is not to give gold to the children but it is custom to give gold to the bride. >> BTW, this too is a false statement. In several families, new borns are given gold jewelary as gift. In afluent business class, by the time a girl reaches 5 she will have at least 100 grams of gold jewelary.