News Item: : Gendercide in Asia
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Posted by Wendy McElroy
Sunday 07 March 2010 - 13:37:58
New technology combined with ancient prejudices are producing communities in Asia with thousands more men than women, it has emerged. Ultrasound scans which can detect the sex of babies have contributed to a massive rise in abortions of female foetuses in cultures which value males much more highly. In China and Northern India, more than 120 boys are now being born for every 100 girls - up from an imbalance of 108 boys to every 100 girls in the 1980s, according to statistics published in The Economist. These rates are biologically impossible without human intervention. [Ed.: a recession/depression will make male sons more valued because they can work the farm and otherwise take care of parents in old age.] (03/05/10)
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(Category: News Reports)
Posted by Wendy McElroy
Sunday 07 March 2010 - 13:37:58
New technology combined with ancient prejudices are producing communities in Asia with thousands more men than women, it has emerged. Ultrasound scans which can detect the sex of babies have contributed to a massive rise in abortions of female foetuses in cultures which value males much more highly. In China and Northern India, more than 120 boys are now being born for every 100 girls - up from an imbalance of 108 boys to every 100 girls in the 1980s, according to statistics published in The Economist. These rates are biologically impossible without human intervention. [Ed.: a recession/depression will make male sons more valued because they can work the farm and otherwise take care of parents in old age.] (03/05/10)
This news item is from ifeminists.com
( http://www.ifeminists.com/news.php?extend.15631 )