Father Held for Killing Infant (Muslim Father Kills Baby Girl for... Being a Girl...)

BEHRAMPORE: A man allegedly hurled his one-and-half- month-old daughter at Mangaljone Mathpara in Raghunathgunj on Sunday night. Manoyara Khatun's forehead was badly injured and she died of heavy bleeding. As the news spread, the villagers informed the police.

Majibar Rahman was had been upset with his wife for having giving birth to a girl. Kohinoor Bibi, the baby's grandmother said, "When he came yesterday with some medicines and baby food, we forgave him. How could we suspect that he would kill his own child? Such cruelty is unacceptable to us and even to Allah! Allah would surely punish him."

Abusing his wife for having given birth to a daughter, on Sunday,he snatched Manoyara and hurled her to the ground. He had allegedly also killed his first child.

"As I gave birth to a daughter, my husband was annoyed with me. We are poor and thus he wanted a son. He accused me regularly and did not even come to my father's house to see the baby. But I could not imagine that he could kill his own daughter. I demand exemplary punishment," said the baby's mother.

Annappa E, additional SP of Murshidabad, said, "Police have started inquiry. Majibar was absconding at first but we finally arrested him from Raghunathgunj."

In another incident, police found the body of a newborn at Ghatbandar on the banks of Bhagirathi in Behrampore on Monday noon. "The parents probably had brought the baby in a bag and left it there. The baby's head was smeared with blood," said police.

"Ummm. Doesn't the father determine the gender of the child? XY vs XX? Can't the egg go either way?" All eggs are X; sperm can be X or Y.

The sperm from the father is a mix of X(female) and Y(male). Conditions in the vagina have a lot to do with which type is more likely to get to the egg. So the mom really does more to determine the sex of the child than the dad.

From wiki answers:

If the X sperm unite with female egg then a female child is born.

If Y sperm unite with female egg then a male child is produced.

As same number of Y and X sperms are deposited in the vagina; which type of sperm ultimately will unite with female egg depends on the conditions of female reproductive system. Whether the condition is favorable for the rapid and safe movement of X sperms or the Y sperms.

The Y sperms are very delicate and are easily get destroyed by acidic and toxic environment of vagina. Thus if the vagina is very acidic most of the Y sperms are destroyed the rest may get immobile and not fit to swim in the cervical canal.

The X sperms are stronger and can withstand the acidity and toxicity better.

Thus if the medium of the reproductive organ mainly vagina, cervix, uterus and fallopian tubes is not favorable then the Y sperms get destroyed or immobile and the surviving X sperms swim in to unite with X egg of the woman to produce female child. This is why failure of family planning method like condom, spermicides, jelly, or withdrawal mostly results in female child. Similarly women having vaginitis, cervicitis, leucorhea, candida infection, cervical erosion almost always produce female children.

I have read— and maybe someone out there can calibrate me on this— that the Arabic language actually has no word for “daughter”. If you ask an Arab man how many children he has, he’ll reply with “I have three sons” or whatever the case may be. Certainly there is some way to refer to the number of female offspring, but by default the words for “children” and “sons” are either the same or interchangeable.

Any help out there?

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