Male child as a support for old-age (lack of social security) Nandan Nilekani explained the issue in depth in its Book Imagining India and strongly recommended a contribution based pension plan for self-employed Indians to relieve old age insecurity. Thus, unfortunately, for most patriarchal Indians for whom consanguinity is a taboo, marrying his daughter to a man hitherto unknown to him (in Koenraad’s words) is like “tilling his (unknown) neighbor’s land”. The issue of consanguinity is, of course, a cultural one but if government fixes the issue of old age insecurity, the desire for a male child and thus, the problem of female foeticide should disappear in long run.