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Educated daughters vs strong daughters: The difference

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Indian government, Indian law, and pro-female organizations in that land talk about increasing education of girls and women. I get very amused at this ineffective and useless propoganda that does nothing great to help the girl child and women. This is because most women even if educated are unable to continue work, career or do entrepreneurship because their parents or in-laws or community will not allow them. So it means educate them for namesake and then make them stagnant to do caring and cooking jobs at home. In short, educate them and again throw them in the same gutter or furnace as before. Education gives them no financial independence, no autonomy, no freedom to decide for self or children. Then what is the role of education for them? Nothing. I pity the parents who think that educating a daughter makes them finish their duty towards her. They continue to rear her as a cow or sheep. The net result is an educated women with no respect or autonomy and no space of her own. This ca...
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Human Milk Banks and Ethics!!! Should human milk donating mothers be compensated?

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Human milk banks have cropped up in various countries of the world because studies showed that mother's milk was better than formula milk for preterm babies. It prevents necrotising colitis in children. Cochrane analysis has also shown similar findings. But in this, donor mothers spend their time and efforts to make available the milk for other babies. So the question is that should these mothers be compensated for it?  Pros of compensation for donating mothers Mothers who are donating their breast milk for other babies are taking out time out of their busy schedules to do so. Besides, there are efforts and sometimes pain involved in pumping breast milk. It is a sort of sacrifice that the mother is doing and she is doing some good deed. So it is very important that she be compensated for this work she is doing for society and other mothers and their children. It cannot be just put as a form of nobility and sacrifice and merely lauded with no monetary appreciation. Human breast milk...
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