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Article: Church workers decry female infanticide. (World).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- September 6, 2002
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INDIA: The killing of newborn girls continues in some parts of southern India despite efforts by government and voluntary groups to stop the practice, church workers said.
Female infanticide has severely affected the male-female ratio in several villages of Tamil Nadu state, said Claretian Fr. G.L. Jayaraj, who manages a home for abandoned children.
The ratio is 870 girls for every 1,000 boys in the state's Andipatti taluk, about 1,600 miles south of New Delhi, Jayarai said, quoting statistics from the state public health department. A taluk is an administrative division comprising several villages.
In Kadamaligundu taluk, 26 ...