A UNICEF report says that one third of all child brides in the world come from India. In 2007 nearly 25 million girls were married before the age of 18 years. Practicing medicine in this hill state we see girls as young as 15 pregnant with the first child. Inspite of laws forbidding child marriage this evil continues to thrive. The feminists propagate the lie that this is because society is patriarchal and so this is all the fault of men. On friday a 22 year old man called Sonu raped a girl of 15 in the town of Rohtak in Haryana. When Sonu's mother, Vidya Devi came to know of her son's crime she took him to the girl's house, poured kerosene on her and set her on fire. A dead girl would be unable to implicate her son. All north Indian women and women in the Hindi belt have a pathological love for their sons. If you ask a mother the gender of a baby you can hear the pride in her voice when she says that it is a boy whereas she is almost apologetic if it is a girl. This abnormal bond with sons drives all the crimes committed against women from child marriage to burning of girls for dowry to abortion of female fetuses. Stupid people want to encourage women to have more girls. Isn't it better for a girl to be aborted than to have to face a life in which she will know that she is not wanted by her own mother and is a burden to be disposed off as soon as possible? Is it any wonder that crime is epidemic?