Read all about it A quote from this article about the infanticide of female babies in India--due in large part to the sizeable dowries required upon marrige--says it all:

Why pay 50,000 rupees to your new in-laws when you can pay 500 rupees for an abortion?

How sad for the mother highlighted in this story, unable to rejoice at the birth of her precious little girl. It is stories like these that make me rage when I hear people talk about how awful the United States is, how horrible capitalism is. How horrible Western life is. Yes, how horrible indeed; we love our little baby girls. how horrible. And if that's not horrible enough, ponder this photograph of a widow in India forced to beg in the streets upon the death of her husband. In many societies in India, a woman whose husband dies is bad luck. They are cast out by the children they raised with all they had, and suffer in loneliness and sadness to the end of their days:

Go read the rest Curse you, Western World, for caring about your baby girls and your widowed mothers. Curse our cars, our prosperity, our relatively easy life. Curse everything that we have and own; it is evil. Communism, caste systems, poverty... that's the way to make a better life for women and children. I see that now.