Did they abort too many female fetuses?
Yes. That is exactly the problem.
It largely a cultural thing among the masses. that even the Chinese Govt is trying to curb. But male children are valued highly, and daughters are considered to be a burden to be unloaded. Many Chinese have been known to drown baby girls, or, if they find out by madical scan that their children are girls, they abort them to avoid problems with the One child policy. China has made laws making this scanning for sex procedure illegal, but from what I’ve heard, they are only having lim,ited success. One would thimnk, under the circumstances, that Chinese families would realise that their daughters are fast becoming a valuable commodity. hey, don’t jump on my case...That’s how many in china think of their daughters...as commodities/liabilities.