This baby born in Mumbai is one of many that's about to give India a new distinction: the world's most populous country. The next generation is poised to be healthier, more literate — and more female — than ever before.
suggests that trend may be reversing. In the past few years, more girls have been born in India. Experts are trying to figure out why."Save the daughter, educate the daughter." Or it could be a mere blip in the statistics, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, says A.L.
"On average, a girl who studies up to 12th grade has fewer children than a girl who's not literate, and a woman who works has fewer children than a woman who does not work," says Sharada, the demographer."A family which earns more has fewer children than a family that doesn't earn much.""But that is only because his father died before his wife — my grandmother — could become pregnant again!" she laughs.India celebrated its 75th birthday last year.
"This is the most important thing for a country: to keep pace with growth of the population by providing health care, education, and the conditions for jobs," Wojnar says."The challenges are anywhere where women and girls don't have decision-making power, where they have lower levels of literacy and where they're not able to exercise their reproductive rights and choices.
"I didn't know that I should eat eggs, drink milk and consume more vegetables while I'm nursing. They told me all of that when I visited the hospital," says Shabana Khatoon, 23, who is one of Sondhe's clients. If the child she's pregnant with now turns out to be a boy, she'd like to stop after that. But if it's a girl, she'll try to get pregnant again, she says.Several weeks later after our first meeting, NPR returns to visit Agrahari, the financial consultant. She's just given birth, on Nov. 9, to a baby boy. They've named him Vehant, a Hindi word meaning intelligent.
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