Reproductive Technologies, Care Crisis and Inter-generational Relations in North India: Towards a Local Ethics of Care

Social Sciences, Bioethics, and the Question of Population

“…By 'residues', we are keen to understand how certain sets of age and gender demographies are threatened into forms of social debility due to certain biotechnological processes. Thus, in Mishra's (2021) paper, adult unmarried sons and their debilitated ageing parents have become threatened as a result of new forms of bioregimes that have eliminated female foetuses in the protection and pursuit of male babies in north India, creating bride-shortages, complicating and shifting local ethics of care within the family-household. In Meng et al's (2021) paper, foetal sex-determination technology and sex-selective abortions have put ageing bachelors-alone through no choice of their own-at a heightened risk of having less or no familial care.…”