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This is my reflection on the article on Gendercide last March 12, 2010 by Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid.
Gendercide has its roots in the kind of family one has. If the husband comes to a point of killing his own daughter in preference for a son, definitely he has a disordered relationship with his mother, with his wife, and with himself. Either his mother is a so called ‘feminist’, one that invades her responsibility being a wife and a mother, or simply his father hates his mother so much that he is not looking at his mother as a person. Having a father who doesn't love his wife would be passed on to his relationship with his own wife. This must be an inter-generational issue. Most likely he is narcissistic that he doesn’t know who he is – that his life also came from a woman.
How can a mother kill her own daughter? It must be a question of her lack of love for herself. She must have a very low self-esteem that she doesn’t feel loved so she has no way of knowing how to love her daughter who is like herself. This would result to a very complex emotional and psychological implications.
Preference of sex at birth is not natural. There is something divine and supernatural on having a certain sex in the family. The size and the composition of the family are already ‘sacred’. To alter these is to play god. A human being from conception plays a role that balances nature. Control or manipulation of this would destroy both others and his very own nature.
Maria Charina Rodriguez
