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| 2006-01-09 |
| Researchers in India and Canada for the Lancet journal said prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girls a year, but the number of angry young males without work or nookie continues to rise. Their research was based on a national survey of 1.1m households in 1998. The researchers said the "girl deficit" was more common among educated women but did not vary according to religion. Same would hold true here I suspect. What is it, they hate thier own kind? The unusual gender balance in India has been known about for some time, And ignored. Where is the western, "progressive" outrage? In most countries, women slightly outnumber men, but separate research for the year 2001 showed that for every 1,000 male babies born in India, there were just 933 girls. Ultrasound, is not your friend. The latest research is by Prabhat Jha of St Michael's Hospital at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Rajesh Kumar of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Research in Chandigarh, India. They found that there was an increasing tendency to select boys when previous children had been girls. Who would want an inferior family member? The sex ratio is so skewed in some states, men cannot find brides, duhhhhhhhhh In cases where the preceding child was a girl, the ratio of girls to boys in the next birth was 759 to 1,000. This fell even further when the two preceding children were both girls. Then the ratio for the third child born was just 719 girls to 1,000 boys. However, for a child following the birth of a male child, the gender ratio was roughly equal. Gender selection, "choice" what lovely tools.Prabhat Jha said conservative estimates in the research suggested half a million girls were being lost each year. "If this practice has been common for most of the past two decades since access to ultrasound became widespread, then a figure of 10m missing female births would not be unreasonable." This just means that girls will be far more sought after in future Christian Tiburtius, Reading Experts in India say female foeticide is mostly linked to socio-economic factors. The girl child has traditionally been considered inferior and a liability. How progressive. It is an idea that many say carries over from the time India was a predominantly agrarian society where boys were considered an extra pair of hands on the farm. Last year the well-known religious leader and social activist, Swami Agnivesh, began a campaign across five northern and western states against female foeticide. "There's no other form of violence that's more painful, more abhorrent, more shameful," he said. If there is any positives here I suppose it would be the fact they (unlike many in the west) are still at least having children, are somewhat concerned about their future, civilizaiton, prodigy, albeit primarily male only. Of course governments will always step in during times of population (and tax) decline, importing new constituents and taxpayers from abroad, displacing or distilling culture, heritage, and values, for which they care nothing. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Feminists knew this was going to happen for years, as detailed in 1985's Gendercide, by Mary Anne Warren. |
| Posted by: Ernest Brown 2006-01-09 22:40 |
| #7 South Korea also has a skewed sex ratio due to selective female abortions. |
| Posted by: john 2006-01-09 20:52 |
| #6 Redneck Jim, don't forget....China loses additional females to foreign adoption. They don't adopt out the male babies. That makes the final ratio even worse. Serves 'em right, though. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-01-09 20:45 |
| #5 Perhaps not (or not as fast). One would think that the exact opposite of dowry, a bride price, as in parts of Africa, would be soon required of men. After all, if women are few, laws of supply and demand must have effect. Even Nelson Mandela paid the family of his current wife, the widow of the former Mozambique president a price - in cattle - for her. There is however the complication of caste. Families are willing to pay dowry if their daughters can marry into a higher caste family. This is sustainng the practice of dowry, which is actually illegal in India. How soon the shortage of women will destroy both dowry and caste is not easy to predict. I think it is inevitable. Caste made some sort of sense in a rural economy where there was a caste of fishermen, of cowherders, etc, extreme specialization of labor. The worker in a factory making automotive parts for Delphi has no traditional job caste. The engineer designing chips for Texas Instruments has no job caste. The entire system will collapase as industrialization and urbanization progress. And a shortage of women will accelerate this. Some communities and some states are already importing brides from elsewhere (and paying the girl's families). When you got no nookie, you don't care about caste and dowry. |
| Posted by: john 2006-01-09 19:24 |
| #4 India has had a number of cases of brides being killed by their in-laws for insufficient 'dowry' (aka bribes to the family of the groom from the family of the bride). I suspect this custom of bride dowry is about to change. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-01-09 18:41 |
| #3 If 10% of the population is gay, then the universe is once again in balanced. |
| Posted by: Master of Obvious 2006-01-09 13:22 |
| #2 This has been discussed from another angle here. Conclusion, the excess males of India, and the excess Males from China (Same selective male over female birth by selection process) will have a war shortly to thin out the "Extras". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-01-09 10:56 |
| #1 for which they care nothing. For which their constituency did not care enough to ensure that there would be a next generation to carry it on. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-09 08:17 |