Posted on 09/17/2019 8:30:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For most parents, daughters are a blessing. But in many parts of south and east Asia, where there exists a strong, culturally-rooted preference for sons, daughters are often unwanted and often selectively aborted prior to birth simply on account of their sex.
In many Asian cultures, sons are strongly valued to carry on the family name, inherit property, or to provide parents with care and financial support in sickness and old age. Daughters, on the other hand, are often seen as a burden due to the practice of dowry in places like India, and due to the traditional custom that daughters leave their birth parents behind after marriage and go on to live with and care for their husband’s parents.
Since the introduction of ultrasound technology several decades ago made it easy and affordable for parents to know the sex of their child prior to birth, millions of girls have gone “missing” due to the practice of sex-selective abortion.
In India alone, I have found that approximately 15.8 million girls have been eliminated through sex-selective abortion since 1990. Nearly 550,000 girls go “missing” at birth in India every year.
The number of girls lost to sex-selective abortion in China is likely even greater. Daughter elimination has also been widespread in many other parts of the world including Vietnam, Taiwan, the Caucasus, and parts of the Balkans.
Due to the widespread practice of sex-selective abortion, deep gender imbalances now exist in places like China and India. In China, by 2030, there will be 30 million more men of marrying age than women of marrying age. In India, according to one study, at least one in ten men in India will still have never been married by the time they turn 50 years old.
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‘Call me crazy, but I suspect this has been occurring in the US for decades.’
you’re not crazy; you’re just not correct...
Please do a Google search using the words, “U.S. abortion immigrants male preference”
‘war on boys continues...’
yeesh, touchy, touchy...bitter much...?
“U.S. abortion immigrants male preference”
my comment referred to the native US population, which I highly doubt is practicing sexually selective abortion...
With the percentage of immigrant population growing, their preferences for boy babies will have a negative effect on the demographics of our nation.
The males feed the military. And the lower class muscle workers. In brain work, barring rotten philosophy, there’s very little difference. Maybe some ethnicities need a lot of ditch diggers.
Thanks; I knew it wasn’t my lying eyes.
“my comment referred to the native US population, which I highly doubt is practicing sexually selective abortion...”
You may be right; we’ll never know, as the “native US population” has had a negative birthrate for decades. They’ll kill babies regardless of gender, and most prevent any pregnancy at all.
population pyramid of China, 2019
in the 0-4 year old cohort, 3.1 % (of the total population) is male, 2.7 % female. 15 % more males. (BTW the same excess is exhibited in the 15-19 year old age bracket.)
https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2019/
population pyramid of China, 1950
in the 0-4 year old cohort, 7.2 % male, 6.7 % female. only 7.5 % more males.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/1950/
The larger excess of males today reflects sex-selection abortion.
But, things haven’t really changed.
Because of sex-selection infanticide, the Chinese got the excess of males to females 15 % by the 15-19 year old cohort back in 1950.
Pretty gruesome, isn’t it.
It means something that we have a Christian culture. We care for the vulnerable among us: Children, the poor, the handicapped, the aged, and minorities, as well as the females.
This is why we need to be pro-life from the womb to natural death.
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