The Reality

Since women bear the domestic responsibilities of the household, the futures of most young girls in rural India are predetermined during their childhood. As early as primary school, most young girls are kept home from school in order to assist in chores or raising younger siblings. Additionally, in order to safeguard her future, parents arrange their daughter’s marriage within her formative years. Although she is not normally sent to live with her husband and in-laws until her early teens, young girls are exposed to sexual intercourse at a very young age. While teen pregnancies are becoming abundant, so too are the associated risks to infants, such as a low birth weight which is often associated with higher rates of infant mortality. Search blogs related to this issue..

In historical times, the caste system emerged as a system of social stratification. In modern day, the caste system persists as a vicious cycle of discrimination and bondage. Those living in rural India exist below the lowest rung of the caste system and are classified by the Indian government as Scheduled Tribe, Scheduled Caste or the Other Backward Class. As a result of their caste and consequential social status, women and infants from rural India are treated with disdain within public medical care facilities.This societal discrimination instigated by the historical caste system, has resulted in a demographic of women struggling to advocate for themselves and their children.
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On average a woman gives birth to a minimum of 5-7 children, working through each pregnancy and often continuing to work as early as 1 or 2 days post delivery. Supporting their nuclear family as well as the larger community, women are responsible for the household, tending to children and elders, animal husbandry and traditional farming.  Additionally, a woman fills the absence of her spouse and/or children who are gone in search of seasonal work, by working laborious jobs such as road building and construction in order to ensure a daily wage.  While women struggle to support the household and tend to their babies, their infants often face malnutrition, lack of access to clean water causing dehydration and diarrhea, inadequate immunizations due to poor medical infrastructure, often culminating in infant mortality. 
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While 70% of the population of India lives in rural areas, many of these communities are isolated from public and private medical facilities. Often the closest government medical care unit lacks both trained birth attendants and the medical facilities necessary to aid in complicated pregnancies or childbirth cases. The lack of proper care and attention during pregnancy and childbirth has led to alarming rates of maternal mortality caused namely by severe bleeding, infections, obstructed labour, and blood clots.
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