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Daughters have become more desirable as education and jobs for women have become the norm. Some countries have some catching up to do, but it's something that's been changing very quickly.
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Also note that in countries like India, dowry customs play a significant part in not wanting girls.
As the Child marriages (both bride and groom are young) were prevalent in India, the brides parents offer dowry to the grooms family in the form of money and materials. This is in order to help support the livelihood of the bride until groom grows up to support her himself. The opposite of this is called Kanyashulkam.
In India dowry (known as Dahej in Hindi)[16] is the payment in cash or some kind of gifts given to bridegroom's family along with the bride. Generally they include cash, jewellery,[17] electrical appliances, furniture, bedding, crockery, utensils and other household items that help the newly-wed set up her home.
In India the dowry system has been putting great financial burden[18] on the daughters family. It has been one of the reasons for families and women in India resorting to sex selection [19] favoring to have a son.[20] This has distorted the sex ratio in India (933 females per thousand males [21]) and has given rise to female foeticide.[22]
The payment of a dowry has been prohibited under The 1961 Dowry Prohibition Act in Indian civil law and subsequently by Sections 304B and 498a of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Despite the anti-dowry law in India, it is still widely and illegally practiced across the country.[23]
I'm pretty sure I said that Tzor. The selection for men/foeticide of girls in rural, tribal countries is almost 90% financial. From huge Financial burden (Dowry) to the lack of work for daughters.
Basically, good girls have only 1 job, 'home maker'. And this job doesn't help their birth family. (Though an elder daughter can help raise younger siblings for a while). So, when you have too many mouths to feed, you sell your daughter into prostitution because a) it's great cash, b) it's one less mouth to feed, and c) what else was she going to do for the family, put you in ruin to try and marry her off?
Education, modernization are the only ways to combat this issue. Of course, this creates other problems. As education improves in 3rd world countries, then the job market fluctuates.
In the long run, we need to find a way to remove the need for people to work for the 3 basics (Food, Shelter, Electricity). But of course, this flies in the face of Free Market, so it's like you're worse than a pedophile, if you bring it up.
Basically, good girls have only 1 job, 'home maker'. And this job doesn't help their birth family. (Though an elder daughter can help raise younger siblings for a while). So, when you have too many mouths to feed, you sell your daughter into prostitution because a) it's great cash, b) it's one less mouth to feed, and c) what else was she going to do for the family, put you in ruin to try and marry her off?
Education, modernization are the only ways to combat this issue. Of course, this creates other problems. As education improves in 3rd world countries, then the job market fluctuates.
In the long run, we need to find a way to remove the need for people to work for the 3 basics (Food, Shelter, Electricity). But of course, this flies in the face of Free Market, so it's like you're worse than a pedophile, if you bring it up.
sabs wrote:In the long run, we need to find a way to remove the need for people to work for the 3 basics (Food, Shelter, Electricity).
People will always "work" for them because as the cost of each goes down one imposes a higher standard that requires more "work." The real goal is the elimination of the need for "excessive" work for the reasonably minimum requirements.
I can't think of anything that can effectively bring down base costs other than a "free" market. Government either causes the prices to go higher, or forces the prices low resulting in supply shortages and black market prices to be even higher.
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Bwahahahaa, ok, that one made me crack up ^^ishy wrote:Cat teasing his friends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnojQF08gSM
And nor for the complete opposite reaction:
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At least one of you kids didn't know Weird Al had done this one so I had to post it in case anyone else missed out the first time around.
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
On the board there have been discussions about adventuring parties with wildly disparate power levels therein. Sokka v. Aang. Frodo v. Gandalf. Madmartigan v. Willow/Fin Raziel... and so on. This is a funny look at that sort of thing.
So, the UC Davis chancellor orders police to remove a dozen students protesting tuition hikes. The students are sitting down, arms linked, and doing nothing.
Police officer in question walks the line and holds the trigger on the can.
Chancellor then puts the officer on leave, the chief of campus police on leave, and apologizes but refuses to leave office. The students let her know how they feel by silent protest on her way to her car from a press conference.
The silence is just downright eerie.
Police officer in question walks the line and holds the trigger on the can.
Chancellor then puts the officer on leave, the chief of campus police on leave, and apologizes but refuses to leave office. The students let her know how they feel by silent protest on her way to her car from a press conference.
The silence is just downright eerie.
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--The horror of Mario
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i would so love for some people to grab such people like that "police"-guy, hold open his eyes and spray an entire can of pepperspray into his face . .
won't be long now untill they spray somebody with a severe allergy to something in tht spray and probably kill them with it . .
won't be long now untill they spray somebody with a severe allergy to something in tht spray and probably kill them with it . .
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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A lot of people could die if that happened. I don't know how the Law works in Germany, but police in the US are untouchable as long as they use [usually] nonlethal weapons, and can use any weapons at all with impunity once they find themselves under attack.Stahlseele wrote:i would so love for some people to grab such people like that "police"-guy, hold open his eyes and spray an entire can of pepperspray into his face . .
The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor from stealing bread, begging and sleeping under bridges.
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So, it's like 2003 all over again.sabs wrote:What's worse is.. he walked back and forth spraying them with pepper spray repeatedly. It was like, "I hold the trigger and just hose them down" for sitting there linked.
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!