Selektivni abortus / tuđa večera (Montenegro)
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| Selektivni abortus / tuđa večera 🇲🇰 | ||
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| Location: Montenegro | ||
| Definition: : Son preference, expressed in the deliberate termination of pregnancy with a female fetus; and in the pejorative referring to female inferior social position within a patrilocal residence system | ||
| Keywords: Montenegro – Balkans – Yugoslavia – Europe – Kinship – Gender – Son preference – Sex-selective abortion – Reproduction – Family – Patriarchy – Patrilineality – Patrilocality | ||
| Clusters: Lock-in effect – Kinship lock-in | ||
| Author: Diāna Kiščenko | ||
| Affiliation: Department of Communication Studies, Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia | ||
By Diāna Kiščenko, Department of Communication Studies, Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia
| In Montenegro, selektivni abortus (ʻselective abortionʼ) involves deliberate, sex-based termination of pregnancy, most usually an abortion of female foetus. One of the main causes for choosing a sex-selective abortion in Montenegro (and other countries) is a traditional preference for a son, now facilitated by access to medical technologies.
Historically, women in Montenegro were expected to give birth to a son in order to secure the continuation of the husband’s family lineage. To ensure a male heir, sometimes women gave birth to several girls beforehand (Milich 1995). Medical technologies such as ultrasound, amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling and cell free foetal DNA test, allow parents to determine the sex of the foetus in early pregnancy and make decisions for termination based on this information. |
