Indian renting out their wives...

[jinxeD_girl]

Men rent out wives in India: News24: World: News

New Delhi - Some husbands in western India are renting out their wives to other men, cashing in on a shortage of single women available for marriage, say reports.

The reports said Atta Prajapati, a farm worker who lived in Gujarat state, leased out his wife, Laxmi, to a wealthy landowner for $175 138 a month, citing unidentified police officials.

According to reports, Laxmi was expected to live with the man, look after him and his house, and have sex with him.

Officials unwilling to comment

The reports said that this was not an isolated incident in the western state, and that several men rented their wives to other men on a month-by-month basis.

Gujarat officials were unwilling to comment on the report. The male-female ratio was becoming increasing skewed across India because many parents aborted female foetuses, preferring sons to daughters.

Female children must be married off, and to achieve that a daughter's parents usually had to pay the groom's family a dowry of cash and gifts - often a massive burden on the parents' resources.

Wealthy families hire housekeeping staff

Dowries were outlawed in 1961, but the practice was still common and the law ill-enforced. According to the 2001 national census, the nationwide number of girls per 1 000 boys declined from 945 in 1991 to 927 in 2001.

But in wealthy Gujarat state, the census showed 828 females for every 1 000 males, although officials said the number could be as low as 700 girls per 1 000 boys in parts of the state.

It was not unusual for wealthy families to hire housekeeping staff in India, but prostitution was illegal.

The lack of marriageable girls in Gujurat had also led to booming business for bride brokers, who were paid to find a woman for a man to marry.

- AP

 

[brahmastra]

can't you stop mud throwing game.
some angered Indian member will open similar thread about pakistan and mud throwing will go on and on.
for example, useless thread pakistan being top 10 failed state opened immidiately after useless thread India being failed state.

 

[Iron_Eagle_17]

No need to start this kind of thread here specially when you have people who like mud slinging.
Mods should close this thread also make sure this doesn't happen again.
Highly revokable.

 

[kabooooom]

Even though the thread starter may have ulterior motive ("dont shoot the messenger"),its fairly acceptable that imbalanced sex ratio ia s major problem in S.Asia. Illiteracy,poverty,patriarchical based society are some of the most profound reason. but the link is not as linear as it may seem, else sex ratio of Kerala & Punjab,Haryana would not be pole apart. Thus it needs to be looked from multidimensional aspect.well I'm assuming that it may be the kutch region of Gujarat which had its share of socio-economic problems. Its very simplistic to view it as directly related to povery especially in S.Asian context.

 

[MilesTogo]

This topic/thread could quickly take a religious color...It will not take long for people to start posting scholarly papers on Mutha/Muta/Mutah and other controversial issues...

 

[jinxeD_girl]

Even though the thread starter may have ulterior motive ("dont shoot the messenger"),its fairly acceptable that imbalanced sex ratio ia s major problem in S.Asia. Illiteracy,poverty,patriarchical based society are some of the most profound reason. but the link is not as linear as it may seem, else sex ratio of Kerala & Punjab,Haryana would not be pole apart. Thus it needs to be looked from multidimensional aspect.well I'm assuming that it may be the kutch region of Gujarat which had its share of socio-economic problems. Its very simplistic to view it as directly related to povery especially in S.Asian context.

What ulterior motive I may have? Female infanticide is common in South Asia... and Pakistanis should learn from this thread and stop killing female fetuses BEFORE they have to rent their wives too ...

 

[brahmastra]

What ulterior motive I may have? Female infanticide is common in South Asia... and Pakistanis should learn from this thread and stop killing female fetuses BEFORE they have to rent their wives too ...

I think everyone knows why you open this thread!

 

[jinxeD_girl]

I think everyone knows why you open this thread!

yes! to educate Pakistanis how bad it can get!!

 

[SMC]

Not a bad thing to do. At least the guys can have peace of mind for some time.

 

[Omar1984]

This is because female foeticide is common in India and now the gender ratio in india is screwed up, so now indian men are having trouble finding brides.

India heading towards shortage of brides


The steady tilt of the sex ratio in favour of boys in India will lead to a severe catastrophic effect on the reproductive health of the nation including an acute shortage of potential brides.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFP), which presented its study on projected demographics for India in 2050 at the fourth Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights, held recently at Hyderabad, pointed out that the ramifications of such an imbalance would not only continue for decades but would affect an enormous proportion of the Indian population.

"While men of marriageable age will suddenly find a dramatic shortage of potential brides, it is girls and women of all ages who will truly feel the brunt," it said, forecasting increases in gender-based violence, trafficking, discrimination and general vulnerability of women and girls.

The study attributed the shortfall in women to a "deeply rooted preference for sons, which leads parents across cultures and geographic locations to decide against allowing a girl to live, even before her birth, and the increasing availability of technology that enables them to do so with ease".

The study predicting a margin of 25 million by 2040 between the ever-increasing male population and the conversely, dwindling numbers of the opposite sex. This, it warns, will lead to the break up of family structure, fierce competition among men to tie the knot and worse still, polyandry!

The growing imbalance is attributed to the preference of the Indian psyche for a son rather than a daughter. A son is seen not only as a breadwinner but also the one who can send his parents on a voyage to the celestial spheres.

The proportion of boys in India’s child population has been on the rise for the past 20 years. India’s system of gender discrimination has moved from a regime characterised by high fertility, female infanticide and excess child mortality among girls, to a modern regime of pre-natal sex selection.

More people are increasingly using ultrasound or amniocentesis to determine the sex of the foetus and abort unwanted (read female) foetuses.

As a result, for every 100 females, 120 baby boys are born in some parts of the country. This is much more compared to 108 in 2001. The survey also indicated that sex ratios among later births are much higher. This is reflected in the increasing pressure on women to have a son after daughters.

Sex selection is more common among well to do urban families in India in contrast to the rural areas in


India heading towards shortage of brides

 

[aj120]

Interesting! This kinda sounds familiar. There was this article on CNN that said something similar to brides running out but it was alluding towards Chinese brides and not Indian wives. But I guess, both are running out of women!

 

[Vassnti]

$175 138 a month thats 2million dollars a year what is the farm worker married to Aishwarya Rai ?

 

[jinxeD_girl]

$175 138 a month thats 2million dollars a year what is the farm worker married to Aishwarya Rai ?

That's just a typo the real rate is $175 or approximately 100 pounds a month...

When husbands are forced to rent out their wives to feed the family | Mail Online

Poor husbands in India have set up rent-a-wife schemes, leasing their partners for up to £100 a month to richer men as the shortage of brides has reached crisis proportions.

The increasing scarcity of young women graphically shows the impact of the outlawed but widespread practice of aborting female foetuses because families want boys, not girls.

Atta Prajapati, a farm worker who lives in Gujarat state, leases out his wife Laxmi to a wealthy landowner for £100 a month - around ten times his salary.

Laxmi is expected to live with the man, look after him and his house and, of course, provide sex.

Female infanticide has been widespread in India for generations.

In 1870 the British colonial government passed a law to ban it, but with little effect. Girls must be married off. And to achieve that a daughter's parents usually have to pay the groom's family a dowry of cash and gifts - often a massive burden on the parents' savings and income.

Boys are also likely to provide more of an income than girls. Dowries were outlawed in 1961, but the practice is still common and the law all-but ignored.

The arrival of ultrasound technology in the 1980s, which made it possible to determine the sex of a foetus, made sex selection much easier.

Doctors were banned from revealing the sex of a foetus in 1994, but only one doctor has ever been prosecuted for doing so.

A report in the Lancet this year calculated that in the past 20 years, no fewer than ten million female foetuses had been aborted at the rate of 500,000 a year.

The nationwide figure for women per 1,000 men declined from 945 in 1991 to 927 in 2001, according to the census.

But in the under-sevens, the imbalance was far more acute. In the Punjab, there were only 790 girls for every 1000 boys of that age.

Officials say in parts of states such as Punjab and Haryana, the sex ratio could now be as low as 500 or 600 females to 1,000 males.

The lack of marriageable girls has led to booming business for bride brokers, who are paid to find a woman for a man to marry.

Brokers charge a groom's family up to £750 and the girl's family will receive around £200.

Dr Sabhu George, who has been researching the phenomenon for the last 21 years, warned: 'Over the next five years, we could see over one million foetuses eliminated every year. The future is frightening.

The world needs to know about this problem because it is going to get worse.'

His research, in New Delhi, shows that as ultrasound technology becomes available in more remote areas of India, the number of abortions of female foetuses increases.

'At this pace, we'll soon have no girls born in this country. We don't know where it will stop,' he said.

Only last week, an undercover Indian TV documentary sent a pregnant female researcher for a consultation with 140 different doctors.

In each case, she asked for an abortion simply because she was carrying a girl. A hundred of the doctors agreed.

Though police have been forced to investigate the programme's findings, to date only one doctor has been jailed for revealing the sex of an unborn baby.

Read more: When husbands are forced to rent out their wives to feed the family | Mail Online

 

[xebex]

$175 138 a month thats 2million dollars a year what is the farm worker married to Aishwarya Rai ?

or forgot a decimal.

Not a bad thing to do. At least the guys can have peace of mind for some time.

in jail, yes!

 

[SMC]

Nah, at their homes. Come on guys, don't force these guys to live a life of misery with a woman and call them social outcasts if they don't do it.