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'Unwanted' babies in Mizoram a worrying trend
IBN Live | PTI | 10:10 AM,Oct 26,2011, Aizawl:
Mizoram may hold its head high as having the best male-female ratio according to Census 2011, but the increasing cases of "unwanted" babies in the state worry child rights activists. An abandoned eight-month-old baby girl was found on a road in Ramhlun locality here on the night of October nine, while a foetus suspected to be an aborted baby was found the next day near a place of worship in Kulikawn locality.
A social worker says that the recent spurt in 'infanticide' and 'foeticide' in the state may be due to increase in the population of ethnic Mizos from Myanmar and Manipur. Ruatfela Nu, a child right activist and member of the state Child Welfare Committee (CWC) says that abortion among the unmarried women is prevalent. She also says that many commercial sex workers who were drug addicts or alcoholics were not serious about raising children.
With the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Indian laws on protection of child rights advocating raising of children in normal families, social workers and law enforcement officials want to avoid admission of orphans and abandoned children in orphanages and homes. We want abandoned children and orphans to live normal family lives," Ruatfela Nu says.
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