current affairs in China.
There are some that will go to another country like Vietnam and purchase a wife if they can't find one in China.
current affairs in China.
Aborting female fetuses does reduce population growth.
It would also lead to a lot of grumpy old men, that would have probably have done something more constructive with their time, like going to Mars, drinking & fighting...not looking at endless shades of purple...
It's not about reducing population. It's about wanting to birth boys over girls. They would never abort a male fetus. It's just a cultural thing. In India, men have been the bread-earners, women have just been a liability - the parents have to offer a sizeable dowry to the man's family when she gets married. (Obviously, this kind of culture is rare in modern urban India, but there are still rural subcultures which are very ancient minded.)
In fact, in a country with more men than women, population growth would be lesser, if anything.
Let's cut off all the balls that are making female babies. After all, it IS the man's fault.
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I propose this be moved to the Politics section. This is the latest trial balloon of right-wing abortion opponents in the US. I think the "abortion is black genocide" didn't really go over well. For some reason these people think they're clever to ask, "how can you support abortion when it will be used for sex selection." This is exactly the same as asking "how can you support freedom of speech when it will be used by white supremacists." Yeah, as people in the US often seem to have trouble understanding, when people have freedom it is inevitable they will use it to do something you do not like nor agree with. Such is the nature of liberty. Anyway, for a similar take:
Balloon Juice - simple answers to easy questions
Is a higher rate of male birth some evolutionary trait developed to help curb the lose of males from violent activities? Interesting question I think.
The other question there as well is that nature seems to compensate for life that is born and dies, but does not seem to be compensating for something that is aborted before birth..as China is slowly coming to recognise.....
In fact, in a country with more men than women, population growth would be lesser, if anything.
The life expectancy of women is longer than that of men probably even when you just consider death from natural causes so that in itself probably contributes to an evening out of the 105 to 100 ratio at birth.
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Mother nature also aborts far more males than females - bitch!
Once you get to about 21, life expectancy differences between the sexes are only about 2 years. Equalisation of pension ages, should remedy that!
In truly rural India, aren't women the ones who do the work while their fathers/husbands sit on the string cot and smoke? That is what I always saw. Even your example is middle-class.
I'm getting an error when clicking on that link. I didn't know that more males don't make it to birth and also die within the first year. Would like to see what it says in that link.
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What these horrific political feminists fail to mention, when attacking gender selective abortion, is that all abortions in general fall more heavily on male fetuses, because there are far more of them, & there are 31 abortions for every 100 births.