Hindu Childbirth

The author of the passage tells the referee that few women could be "induced to use a hospital, were it at their very door."

Hindu traditions say that a woman in childbirth is marked-up. There can only be wholeness explanation for this - a loss of dexterity is occurring from the become. All of the energy and resources inputted into the mother over the past nine months have been change into another living being, and for this the mother is very tired. By the period the mother has completed giving birth, she is utterly depleted of energy. For a healthy person to get too close to the mother impart mean that his or her energy may be at risk. The Dhai are the lowest class, and so they serve as the midwives because no one cares if

the unclean and unhealthy energies afflict them. It makes sense that the Dhai are often overaged women because they are less likely to become jealous of the mothers.

The wide issue becomes more clear when one considers the fact that having a child in an agricultural or hunter-gatherer society is an unimagined investment of energy and resources. For a family of two (husband and wife), the food will increase by 50% in just a few years, there will be an errant toddler in a dangerous environment to keep an eye on. Sons are prized in some societies because they will be pass judgment to "serve their [fathers'] souls." To this end, infanticide is common among some Hindu societies.

On a sadder note, the tone of the passage gives heavy priority to males dominance. Women are in the long run a means to producing children (heirs), and in
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