The expensive practice of bridal dowry is one factor believed to contribute to foeticide. Additionally, 'many women in feudal areas don't want to have a daughter who would go through the same misery, humiliation and dependence that defines their own lives.

Causes:-

1)Dowry system where parents of the bride have to pay the groom's family to marry their daughter. Higher the dowry, better the chances of a girl getting married. Of course, an unmarried girl is a blot on a family's honor.

2)Misplaced archaic cultural (nonsense) of girls being the 'honor' of the family. Sadly, this is true for a majority of cultures around the world, but some take it seriously enough to resort to murderous acts for the sake of 'honor' that is driven by super-sized inflatable  male chauvinist egos.

Consequences:

1. Women's health: There are women who have to undergo numerous abortions in hopes of getting a son at the risk of not being able to conceive again. They have even higher chances of being abused and abandoned by their husbands and families once they cannot conceive and haven't even produced a son. Some women don't have the financial means to consult qualified physicians, so they settle for quacks who are available in plenty, and thus endanger their health immensely. There are reports of these quacks prescribing testosterone to women who want a male child resulting in increase in cases of cancer among women and the birth of eunuchs. In addition to that, emotional and mental strain that a woman goes through is not considered important at all. She is left alone to suffer.
2. Women being trafficked: Stories of women being bought from the poor regions of the country for men who can't find themselves brides in the affluent parts affected by adverse sex-ratio are already making news. There are also news of women being bought and abandoned or sent to another man once they have produced a son. Long distance brides are being bought from a completely different culture and are forced to adjust to their new homes with new culture, new language, and far away from their families.
3. Women being abused and sexually exploited: Although it is invariably happening already, incidences of young girls (children) as well as older women being raped and forced into polygamy are to see a leap in numbers if the current trends of mass extinction of the female gender continues at the same pace.
4. Suicide rates in women will increase. Their psychological health will suffer. Their physical health will suffer. In short, the female gender is doomed if we don't do anything about fixing the problem we have at hand.
5. Violence amongst men: With a lack of proper family institution at home, men are bound to resort to aggressive means to expend their energy when they are not busy making money or beating women they bought because they couldn't give them sons in the first go.

Cures:

1. Education, education, and education geared towards women empowerment, Mindset of the people needs to be changed and women should be empowered.
2. Financial lures for families who are below a certain income level
3. Awareness of extreme consequences of an evil like Female Genocide through media intervention.