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How come there are no girls? Pregnant women in India want to know. ("Feticide")
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| 09/14/2015
| Rhitu Chatterjee
Posted on 09/15/2015 5:36:51 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Gumdrop
India is starting to see “wife sharing”, the girl marries the oldest brother and they all share her.
We’ll know that women have more value, though, when dowries are replaced by bride price, men paying for women instead of families paying him to marry her.
And when women have a material value to their society, then the families will stop aborting them as often.
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09/15/2015 7:50:58 PM PDT
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tbw2
To: tbw2
Well know that women have more value, though, when dowries are replaced by bride price, men paying for women instead of families paying him to marry her. And when women have a material value to their society, then the families will stop aborting them as often.True. But culturally the women still go to the husbands family so it's not a perfect incentive...
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09/15/2015 7:59:17 PM PDT
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GOPJ
(Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
To: Kid Shelleen
In India boys are more valued for cultural and economic reasons.And for the exact same economic principles, the pendulum will swing back at some point, and women will be more valued. Whether it is done by legislative laws or by the laws of human nature, it WILL happen. The only question is how much Indian culture wants to hurt itself in the process.
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09/15/2015 8:04:42 PM PDT
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Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Lucy Hamilton
This is why in India theres a massive amount more men than women, thus making it more difficult for Indian men to find wives.Not true according to the CIA Wold Factbook. India has 0.92 men for every woman... 0.96 for ages 15-65... 0.89 for those over 65. Currently, at birth, it is 1.02, which is still in the top five of the 228 nations in the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio#cite_note-cia-1
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09/15/2015 8:10:51 PM PDT
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Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Teacher317
And we’re going to trust the CIA, headed by John Brennan, spent time in Saudi Arabia where he converted to Islam.
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09/16/2015 4:18:08 PM PDT
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Lucy Hamilton
(Lucy in Occupied Europa)
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