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But individual incidents such as these will happen in a country where it is economically much profitable to have a male child. Millions of mothers have not aborted female fetuses because they hate girls or women, but because they feel they are so desperately poor that a girl child is truly a burden for them. And infanticide/foeticide is just one half of the story. What about the millions of teenaged girls who have been literally sold by their own parents to middlemen, and are then trafficked to end up as wives in the infanticide prone areas (as there are no women there now), or even as maids, labor, sex workers depending on their luck? Yes, the people who force this on their own children have truly a brutal crime, but does not mean that we should not look into the larger picture of how it is actually difficult raising a girl child in India, especially for the poor. I believe they are left with no choice.