@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11262,
	  title     = {An Analysis of Abortion Laws and Sex Selective Abortion in India: A Case Study of Rajasthan},
	  author    = {Priya Bhakat},
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	  abstract     = {A son in every Hindu society pays his own father the debt and he owes him for his own life whereas a girl child is treated as a burden mainly in case of first child. Even today in India we have many societies which does not welcome girl child. Although there is an increase in overall sex ratio, there is a continuous decline in child sex ratio. This paper focuses on issues of sex selective abortion in Rajasthan based on secondary data. It is found that 90.0 percentages of women in Rajasthan wants at least one son. Around 34.3 percentages of women wants more sons than daughters and only 1.5 percentages of women wants more daughters than sons. It is very common among the rich and educated people.
},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences},
	  volume    = {7},
	  number    = {6},
	  year      = {2013},
	  pages     = {1833 - 1839},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11262},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/78},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 78, 2013},
	}