PANAJI: The recent kidnapping of a baby boy in GMC has attracted society’s patriarchal mentality into the end, a cross-section of individuals stated.
They blamed the kidnapper’s activities to this immense pressure on many girls to bear a man child, despite mathematics demonstrating the gender of a baby will be set by the individual’s chromosomes in the time of conception.
Chairperson of the Goa State Commission for Women, Vidhya Gawde, stated the facts until date suggest that the girl — who’s four brothers — has been exposed to lots of family stress to contribute to a boy friend.
“It is not entirely her fault, but our society is accountable also,” Gawde stated.
She said the commission is considering counselling the girl and her loved out that the episode exposed the hollowness from Goan society, surgical oncologist Dr Shekhar Salkar said,”We believe ourselves to be an very educated society, however at our life span, we’re a failure.
An episode such as this has set us on the rear foot.
It is very important to spread the message which the gender of a baby is dependent upon the individual’s chromosomes rather than the girl.” Salkar also blamed in-laws, lots of whom he explained purge their brand fresh daughter-in-law to keep a boy.
“The degree of the torture that the girl should have confronted in the current case is evident in the fancy strategy the semi-literate mom from a non socio-economic background implemented,” he explained.
A government psychologist told TOI that stress for women to keep a boy causes distress that might lead to absurd actions.
“Some might enter anxiety and depression and, quite rarely, psychosis due to the continuous physical and psychological abuse,” the psychiatrist said.
Assistant professor in Goa University’s department of women’s studies, Sulochana Pednekar, said girls that are under such stress experience acute anxiety when pregnantwomen.
“Additionally, there are several reported instances of girls suffering post-natal melancholy if they had been anticipating a boy and whether the kid turns out for girl.,” she explained.
She pushed for good sex education courses for many school kids and open discussion of problems in order society’s patriarchal mentality of getting a boy to light the funeral pyre, to find moksha (freedom), to select the family inheritance and name ahead is done .
“Our whole society must have ownership with this event.
Unless people quit raping women for kids, especially male children, these matters will last,” Pednekar stated.