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China now has 32 million more males than females. There are reasons for the gender disparity. One of the reasons, according to Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute (PRI), is due to sex-selection abortion. "[T]he parents will go in at 18-weeks gestation and have an ultrasound done -- and if the ultrasound reveals that they're carrying a little boy, they'll continue the pregnancy," Mosher remarks. "If it reveals they're carrying a little girl, they'll schedule an abortion." According to the PRI spokesman, that is because of the cultural preference for boys. Most families in China are only permitted one...

Top Scholar Predicts “Slow Motion Humanitarian Tragedy” in China Stinging rebuke delivered during address to World Economic Forum in Dalian, China By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, September 21, 2007 (CFAM.org) - Likening the Chinese one-child policy to a “slow-motion humanitarian tragedy,” prominent demographer Nicholas Eberstadt urged the Chinese government to “immediately and without reservation” scrap the coercive population control program that has been “a tragic and historic mistake.” Eberstadt delivered the stinging rebuke during an address to the World Economic Forum held in Dalian, China earlier this month. Eberstadt told officials that while the population control program has achieved its...

Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- A new study has confirmed what observers of China's family planning policies have suspected for years. By forcing women to have abortions, sterilizing them and targeting them and their families for persecution has caused a severe gender imbalance that's resulted in sexually exploiting women, higher crimes and other social concerns. Conducted by Qu Jian Ding of the Institute of Population Studies at Zhejiang University and Therese Hesketh of London's Institute of Child Health, the study finds men in the Asian nation overwhelmingly outnumber women. The pair relied on data from 40,000 women and found that the...

ANXI, China For farming families in the lush mountains of Fujian Province, the famous crop is oolong tea and the favorite source of labor is sons. The leafy bushes of tea fill the hillsides the same way young boys fill the village streets. . There is such a glut of boys here: roughly 134 are born for every 100 girls. That the imbalance has forced an unlikely response from the Chinese government. To persuade more families to have girls, it has decided in some cases to pay families that already have daughters.