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Bride Shortage in North India Drives Men to Look Far Afield
ABC News ^ | Sep 10, 2015 | NIRMALA GEORGE

Posted on 09/11/2015 12:11:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway

When Sadhuram Berwal wanted to get married, his family went about it in the traditional Indian way, asking relatives, neighbors and local temple priests to suggest a young woman. But after an extensive search among women of his caste in his area, no suitable bride could be found.

A larger factor had narrowed the field sharply: a skewed male-female ratio that is particularly pronounced in his home state of Haryana, in India's north, due to sex-selective abortions in a society where many families prize boys over girls, mostly for economic reasons.

Through a friend, Berwal eventually found a woman 2,700 kilometers (1,700 miles) to the south, in the state of Kerala, who was willing to marry him. But with a different language and profoundly different customs, she was overwhelmed by her new life.

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KEYWORDS: abortion; india
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To: tet68

Now, now. Don’t Trump it up.


21 posted on 09/11/2015 1:40:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: tbw2

“The Chinese consider girls watering someone else’s garden, belonging to that family. China’s one child policy compounded matters, as many people made sure their ONLY child was a son. Where he’d find a wife was irrelevant.
India shares part of that view, as well as a traditional imbalance of girls (vegetarian does this) that made less valuable than boys.”

That’s why we need polygamy after gay marriage is universal, so that the situation can be made even worse.


22 posted on 09/11/2015 1:43:40 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: tbw2

Thank you about the Asian insight regarding daughters.
Worked with lots of Chinese but didn’t understand the logic.


23 posted on 09/11/2015 3:03:23 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: nickcarraway; MeshugeMikey; Lazamataz; Slings and Arrows

All wedding chapels will now include a ‘the lady or the tiger’ challenge before any matrimony vows may be shared.


24 posted on 09/11/2015 3:36:26 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: Zathras

Good at math; animal husbandry, not so much.


25 posted on 09/11/2015 3:39:54 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: garyb
Fascinating stuff on that Wikipedia page...

The most adult men for every adult woman (ages 15-65) are UAE at 2.74... Qatar has 2.46... Oman 1.38... Bahrain 1.32... Saudi Arabia 1.29... Jordan 1.15... The top 6 are all Muslim.

Greenland is the first significant nation that isn't Middle-Eastern Muslim, also at 1.15... the next significant non-Muslim nation on earth in male-to-female adult ratio is the US, at 1.07. I did not expect that.

Zimbabwe (0.81), Chad (0.85), and Bangladesh (0.89) are the top significant nations with more adult women than men.

Palau and Samoa have a weird population pattern, too. More adult men, but far more elderly women... Samoa (1.26 Adult and 0.45 Elderly) and Palau (1.10 Adult and 0.80 Elderly).

Among Children (<15), there's not much variation in the world. Only 4 (of 228) are below 1.00, and none under 0.96... The world average is 1.07, and only 11 nations (of 228) are over 1.10. None are over 1.17 (China).

26 posted on 09/11/2015 3:42:33 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: nickcarraway
I went farther than he did. I found my wife, on line, 2000 miles away. Maybe he should have tried a dating site.
27 posted on 09/11/2015 4:48:24 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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To: onedoug

Trump it up?

Hey, Trump can buy a bride, Obama had to sell his soul
for one.


28 posted on 09/11/2015 5:39:48 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: dsrtsage

Polygamy is largely to blame for the Islamic terrorist - low ranking males who have no hope of a wife or family life unless they go to war and kill other people OR kill themselves fighting to get virgins in heaven.


29 posted on 09/12/2015 6:42:43 AM PDT by tbw2
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