It is happening in the U.S. among immigrant populations who come from countries that devalue girls.
Excellent point!
Lots of barbaric practices you say would be "unthinkable" here in the States are gaining ground due to the growing legal/illegal immigrant populace: Radical clitorectomies (vulgo: genital mutilation), abortion of female fetuses, etc.
We have no cause to be complacent.
Regards,