Recently, my Women in Society class finally ventured into a lecture/discussion on bride burning and other related abuse.
From my notes...
Bride burning is illegal, but not well enforced.
As well as bride burning, acid attacks are quite prevalent. It involves throwing acid onto a woman's face so she becomes so disfigured, no one will want her (for marriage or a job or anything). Rejected suitors often do this to the women who rejected them.
1 in 8,000 abortions in India are boys. It is supposedly illegal to find out the sex of the fetus before having an abortion, but obviously, there are ways around this.
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