Girl Child
The girl child has, in Nepal, little chance to enjoy the "green paradise of childhood". For many families, the new born girl is often considered the wrong baby. Her mother is likely to be blamed for this, in complete ignorance of the rules of genetic and in the poorer families she may suffer such neglect that the sex ratio of the low income population is markedly skewed toward the men. But if she survive infancy, she will quickly learn that life is earned through hard work. First helping her mother in the daily chore, paying respect, attention and devotion to the male members of the family, taken out of school at a much earlier age than the boys, she may end up as a servant for the richer families or married early or in the worst case sold to the flesh trade. In her work, Ragini has a mild and balanced vision of the girl child which does not look happy but does not face the extreme violence of rape, abusive workload and total submission to male authority.
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Jun 22, 2000
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