son stroke
n.— «It is this structure that must be transformed—a structure that gets expressed through a wide-range of behaviors, such as dowry and a preference for sons over daughters, which the activists refer to as “son stroke.”» —“Breakthrough in Jaipur” The Hunger Project-India Nov. 16, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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