TFR and equality in India

In today's class, we watched a video. We knew that Japanese population dropped by half and birth rate also decreased in recent years by video. One of three people in Japan are retired. One of reasons is that Japan doesn't welcome immigrants like United States. This condition also happened in Russia, Germany and many other countries. However, the population in India is keeping raising. We knew that Indian usually have many children. A famous building in India-Tai Mahai, was built because of a queen who bore 14 children, and dead when she bore the 14th one. Many cities in India were overcrowded, even had the number of people as big as half of American.The TFR in India also used to be 6 although now it has been 3.

The treatment of women in India was not very good, many girls didn't be allowed to get education. In the video, we saw a woman almost dies after having 8 children. Another one told her it was very dangerous and she must find money to go to the hospital. She didn't want another baby either, but now she only had 5 children, one son and four daughters, all of the rest have been dead. She needed one more son to take care of her after she got old, because daughters will move to husband's house after they get married.All of the women in India are same as the woman in video. They needed to bear more than one son, although this almost killed them. It was their husbands' decision.

In India, one in every ten children died before five years old. Parents chose the person who would get married to their son or daughter, not the son or daughter themselves. They even didn't know their finace or fiancee before marriage. Many girls would get married at the age of only 14 or 15. When they get married, their parents have to offer something to their husbands as dowry. In India, there are 25,000 women are killed by husband each year, sometimes the reason of using violence for husbands to their wife even only is she has a daughter, men and women's status didn't obtain equality. It always happened in India that, if a woman got a boy, they would feel great; but if the woman got a girl, they would let her have an abortion and conceive again to get a boy.