“Your lack of understanding is near complete”
Oh OK now I understand. If you are only going to live until age 40 getting married and then serially raped by grandpa and the boys makes perfect sense.
Thanks for sharing your insight with me. :-) snicker
you over state the reality
That is simply not the norm
Would you prefer to be aborted before birth, like the Chinese do with many of their girls?
In the Third World, girls have little economic value, other than as wives to men who can support and feed them. In such societies, people are often at the edge of survival. When the supply of viable husbands (ie, those who can actually support a family) is less than the supply of girls, then the excess girls are killed.
In Islamic countries, where a wealthy man can have multiple wives and pay a bride-price for them (mahr), then girls have economic value, and the parents have an incentive to let them live, at least long enough to unload them onto a husband and let HIS family feed them.