Cultural pressure to have a boy is leading some British women of Asian origin to travel to India for abortions to avoid having a girl. Among them is Meena, whose name has been changed to protect her identity.
She describes what led her to do such a thing.
Reconstruction: 'Meena' went to India to abort her daughter
Full interview "As soon as you're pregnant everyone sits there and looks at you and constantly says: 'you're going to have a boy. We'll do this and we'll do that and we'll have celebrations'," she said.
But when the child is actually born and it's a girl, everyone around you feels disappointed - they say: 'well, never mind'."
Meena, an office worker in her 30s, is from a middle-class Punjabi family and was born and brought up in the UK.
She has three daughters under 13. But says she has been made to feel a failure for not producing a son.
Meena says Indian culture can still exert a huge pressure on women to have boys - to carry the family name and because girls are expensive - and that the pressure exists on Indian women living in Britain too.
"It is all up to the husband and it's usually the husband's side of the family who - you know - are putting the pressure on."
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It is really not a nice feeling when you've had your baby and you are really proud of her and they turn around and dismiss her as just another mistake
So last year, when Meena became pregnant for the fourth time, she and her husband deci
