Ram Saki: Stephanie Nolen

Stephanie Nolen: The dire straits of being single and female in India, according to Globe and Mail. Stephanie Nolen's India Census in India a window into a changing nation Ram Saki, 38, became a mother at 14 and now has five children, the first four girls: I wanted a son thats why we kept having, although my heart was weak. She uses no contraception. Sometimes you can get the pill here, but I dont want to take it I know, if you keep taking it every month, you become weak. But I dont want to go and get that operation done I m scared. But I cant ask my husband to have a vasectomy he ll start hitting me. Its better not to ask. For The gallery Noni Raja did just what she was supposed to do. She married when she was 20, in 2004, and gave birth to a son a year later. In 2006, she had a daughter. And a year after that brought the second son she needed to fulfill her obligations in the eyes of her in-laws, farmers with a tiny plot in this hardscrabble hamlet in the Indian heartland. More Related to this Story Demographics Rate of aborted female fetuses increases in India (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.