BIGGEST BLUNDERS OF CHINA AND INDIA                                           

The families in both nations prefer to have male births than female births. Of course, this can apply to other nations also.

My wife is oriental and I am Caucasian.  We wanted sons. We got two daughters. The oldest is an official in government and the youngest is an accountant in a firm. Both our daughters put themselves through University. Between them, we have five beautiful grandchildren.  My wife and I consider ourselves really fortunate to have our two daughters.

However, the families in China and Indian weren’t too happy having daughters. In China, sons would work for a living and help support their parents. In India, if parents had a daughter, they would have to pay a large dowry to the other family who has a son who will marry the girl.

How did they solve this problem?

China and India

Years ago, when a girl was born in China, the parents would drown the baby in hopes that the next baby would be a son.

In China, a ”one-child” policy, in hopes of reducing the ever expanding population was enforced by the state with forced sterilizations and abortions, exacerbates gendercide, leading some parents to take matters into their own hands. If you’re allowed only two children, and you already have one girl then in a culture where males are valued much more highly than females, it’s not hard to imagine what follows. Baby girls are placed in sacks and thrown in rivers and wells and even dumped upside-down in buckets of water.                                                                                          

There is no doubt in my mind that the parents agonized over taking such horrific steps so that they could bring a son in the world who would support them when they are aged.

The United Nations estimates that about 200 million girls are missing from the world due to this rampant genocide which is now commonly called “gendercide.” The effects of these heinous practices, as time goes on, could be devastating in parts of Asia, especially in China  as men look around and realize that all their potential wives no longer exist. 

This terrible slaughter of young girls is rooted in centuries-old tradition and sustained by deeply ingrained cultural dynamics which, in combination with government policies, accelerate the permanent elimination of girls.

The United States

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Could a nation like the United States permit the slaughter of female babies? Yes but not as savagely like in China.

In the United States he House of Representatives rejected a bill that would have imposed criminal penalties on abortionists if they knowingly aborted a fetus because the mother did not want a child that was female.

According to the bill’s detractors, there is no problem with sex-selection abortion in the U.S., and this is just another way for mean lady-haters to limit abortion “rights.

A Virginia delegate introduced a state bill to ban sex-selective abortions, and women and feminists across Virginia rejoiced that this girl-killing would be stopped, at least in one state.

Virginia delegate Kaye Kory, a Fairfax Democrat, said it’s “an insult” that men are so heavily involved in litigating such matters, and Mr. Marshall’s measure was a thinly veiled attempt to move toward making abortion illegal in the state.

That is gibberish. He wasn’t advocating complete abortions just pre-selective abortions.

Every human being who is in the womb has a right to be born with few exceptions. Pre-selection is not a valid or moral form of selection. 

Kory has the temerity to say that it’s an insult that a man wants to make it illegal to abort babies just because they are girls. Do you know what is actually an insult? That abortion has become such a political tool that women don’t even think any more about what it is. It’s just a word, a word that means “feminism and women’s rights And you have to support it in every way, to any extreme, asking no questions, or you are anti-woman. That is more gibberish.

Suppose that abortion wasn’t available and woman who wanted only sons would have to wait until the baby girl is born to dispose of her. Would it be anti-woman to condemn mothers of baby girls who drown them in a bucket of water? I think not.

As Live Action discovered and revealed, if you go to Planned Parenthood for an abortion and tell them you want to end your pregnancy because you don’t want a girl, their reaction will be the same as if you told them you were a sex-trafficked 14-year-old, or the victim of statutory rape. In other words, they will take your money and abort your baby without any qualms of killing a human being because she is a girl

It doesn’t even matter to Planned Parenthood that nearly a quarter of a billion women are missing from the world because of pre-selection of female babies in their mother’s wombs. What matters little to Planned Parenthood is that taking a stand against the genocide of females that will cost them money.

If my wife and I had chosen to have our two daughters aborted so that we could have sons, we would have denied ourselves from having two very intelligent daughters and five beautiful grandchildren.

One of the leading causes of cesareans in countries such as the United States. Hospital policies discourage subsequent vaginal births by women who have had C-sections something that isn’t an issue in China, thanks to its one-child policy. But the one-child policy has indirectly pushed the country’s C-section rate over the top, by setting off a cascade of cultural changes that transformed not just family size but the very nature of childbirth itself. as unveiled, China’s experiments in birth control had already begun; other foreigners were invited to participate  in  state-mandated abortions. Pregnant women’s bodies had already become the domain of not just doctors and hospital administrators but also of government officials.

The question is: Why? It's more than just the historic birth ratio of 105 boys for every 100 girls. Both abortion and infanticide, largely triggered by a long-time limit of one child per family in China, each played a role. The skewed populations have prompted Chinese men, left with a limited pool of potential brides at home, to seek wives in other regions of their own countries as well as those abroad. But a dearth of mates isn't the only concern for population giants China and India, which together account for 2.4 billion of the 6.7 billion people on Earth.

 

There are 119 boys born for every 100 girls in China today, compared with 108.5 boys per 100 girls during the 1980s. Recent national data is less comprehensive for India, but census records show 115 boys born for every 100 girls in 2003. That represents a major leap from 104 boys per 100 girls in 1981. By comparison, the United States is closer to average, the states being 105 boys for every 100 girls this year.

The growing imbalance slows in older age because women tend to outlive men, with the ratio in both countries falling to about 106 men per 100 women after age 60. But such figures are cold comfort for younger men who lack marriage prospects in their age groups. 

China's lopsided population woes began in the early 1980s when its government began enforcing a one child per couple rule. The cap was first adopted in 1979 as part of a series of ongoing measures to curb population growth to help the government manage the country's still-limited resources. The move correlated with an attempt by Chinese authorities to improve healthcare that included taking portable ultrasound machines to the most isolated rural villages, which gave women advanced knowledge of the sex of her fetus. When the mothers learned of the sex of the expected babies and realized that the babies would be females, they aborted them. Hence, more male babies than female babies were born. Thus the lopsided sexes being born has caused millions of young men who are faced with the problem of not having any women to marry.

There is no  one-child policy in India, but parents there apparently make similar decisions driven by cultural views of daughters as financial burdens—largely because of the dowries required before marriage. 

The sex ratio for second and third Indian births became increasingly slanted if the firstborn was a girl, but was roughly 50–50 if the first birth was a boy, according to a 2006 Lancet article. The situation led Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to denounce the half-million annual abortions of Indian female fetuses as "a national shame" earlier this year. Killing or abandoning infants has historically existed in India.

Chinese, Korean, and Indian parents in the U.S. with children born in this country show a similar cultural bias according to a recent study in Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. This was particularly apparent in the 2000 U.S. census of the third of three children: boys outnumbered girls by 50 percent if there was no previous son.

Modernization typically leads to a reduction in the number of children per family, but the preference for sons does not fall as quickly. That was evident in modernizing Asian countries such as South Korea and Taiwan, which both saw changes in the ratio of girl and boy births during the 1980s.

Those countries have recently seen a shift back toward a balanced sex ratio, which spells hope for China and India further down the road. For instance, South Korea had a birth sex ratio of just 107.4 boys for every 100 girls in 2006, compared with 116.5 boys for every 100 girls in 1990. The reverse trend draws power from the strengthening social and economic status of women, as well as the parental desire to have a nuclear family consisting of one boy and one girl.

Baby boy bias is not as widespread in countries outside Asia—at least not enough to prompt parents to attempt to control the sex of their newborns. Studies show the birth sex ratio of males to females fell in North America and Europe during the latter half of the 20th century, although it was not significantly changed to begin with. South American countries do not have widespread prenatal sex selection because of Catholic beliefs, according to political scientist Valerie Hudson of Brigham Young University, and Africans cherish the earning capacity of daughters. Only some other Central and East Asian countries such as Vietnam now see birth sex ratios near that of China or India. 

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It's one thing to wish for a boy or a girl when pregnant; but it's something else entirely to take steps to guarantee your wish comes true. Enter China and India, where the ratio of boys to girls is so lopsided that economists project there may be as many as 30 to 40 million more men than women of marriageable age in both countries by 2020. 

The question is: Why? It's more than just the historic birth ratio of 105 boys for every 100 girls. Both abortion and infanticide, largely triggered by a long-time limit of one child per family in China, each played a role. The skewed populations have prompted Chinese men, left with a limited pool of potential brides at home, to seek wives in other regions of their own countries as well as those abroad. But a dearth of mates isn't the only concern for population giants China and India, which together account for 2.4 billion of the 6.7 billion people on Earth. 

There are 119 boys born for every 100 girls in China today, compared with 108.5 boys per 100 girls during the 1980s. Recent national data is less comprehensive for India, but census records show 115 boys born for every 100 girls in 2003. That represents a major leap from 104 boys per 100 girls in 1981. By comparison, the U.S. is closer to average: 105 boys for every 100 girls this year.

The growing imbalance slows in older age because women tend to outlive men, with the ratio in both countries falling to about 106 men per 100 women after age 60. But such figures are cold comfort for younger men who lack marriage prospects in their age groups. 

The Chinese have traditionally preferred sons because of their potential to financially support their parents, carry on the family name, and lead ancestor worship, population experts say, and this holds particularly true for rural areas where sons provide much-needed labor. This cultural preference has led many women under the one-child rule to seek abortions, which are legal in China, if they discovered a fetus was a budding girl. The advent of abortion technology has largely replaced the practice of abandoning baby girls, which was more widespread when the one-child rule was first adopted.

Local officials now have flexibility to enforce the policy as they see fit.  Rural Chinese are typically allowed to have two children instead of just one; in fact, only roughly 36 percent of the population, primarily in cities, is subject to the rule, according to the National Population and Family Planning Commission. In recent years, these urban Chinese also flout the rules and have more than one child, typically losing societal benefits and paying a fine based on how much the couple earns.

The existence of families with more than one child has allowed researchers to track the practice of sex selection before birth, particularly since hard data on abortion and infanticide is scarce. 

Health policy expert Avraham Ebenstein of Harvard University examined China's 2000 census data and found that the sex ratio of first births for couples was close to the natural sex ratio, but it became increasingly skewed following the birth of one or more daughters. That suggests parents value firstborns regardless of sex, but practice sexual selection for later children if they do not yet have a boy. "The steep rise in sex selection rate between first and second births is responsible for 70 percent of missing girls.

There is not a one-child policy in India, but parents there apparently make similar decisions driven by cultural views of daughters as financial burdens—largely because of the dowries required before marriage. The sex ratio for second and third Indian births became increasingly slanted if the firstborn was a girl, but was roughly 50–50 if the first birth was a boy, according to a 2006 Lancet article. The situation led Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to denounce the half-million annual abortions of Indian female fetuses as "a national shame" earlier this year. Killing or abandoning infants has historically existed in India and may also play a role.

Chinese, Korean, and Indian parents in the U.S. with children born in this country show a similar cultural bias according to a recent study in Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. This was particularly apparent in the 2000 U.S. census of the third of three children: boys outnumbered girls by 50 percent if there was no previous son.

Modernization typically leads to a drop-off in the number of children per family, but the preference for sons does not fall as quickly. That was evident in modernizing Asian countries such as South Korea and Taiwan, which both saw skewing in the ratio of girl and boy births during the 1980s.

Those countries have recently seen a shift back toward a balanced sex ratio, which spells hope for China and India further down the road. For instance, South Korea had a birth sex ratio of just 107.4 boys for every 100 girls in 2006, compared with 116.5 boys for every 100 girls in 1990. The reverse trend draws power from the strengthening social and economic status of women, as well as the parental desire to have a nuclear family consisting of one boy and one girl.

Baby boy bias is not as widespread in countries outside Asia—at least not enough to prompt parents to attempt to control the sex of their newborns. Studies show the birth sex ratio of males to females fell in North America and Europe during the latter half of the 20th century, although it was not significantly skewed to begin with. South American countries do not have widespread prenatal sex selection because of Catholic beliefs, according to political scientist Valerie Hudson of Brigham Young University, and Africans cherish the earning capacity of daughters. Only some other Central and East Asian countries such as Vietnam now see birth sex ratios near that of China or India. 

The growing number of "bare branches"—as the Chinese call young men without the opportunity to marry—was deemed "a hidden danger" that will "affect social stability," according to a 2007 statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. Hudson has also suggested that social instability such as rising crime and even rebellion historically follow any large number of "bare branches," although other social scientists such as Ebenstein remain reluctant to extend such parallels to modern China or India.

A more indisputable result has been Chinese bachelors joining South Koreans and others in searching for foreign wives, particularly from neighboring Asian countries such as Vietnam and even North Korea.  That solution, however, may prove fleeting as Vietnam struggles with its own growing imbalance in birth sex ratio. All countries involved can only hope that their outdated policies have come to an end. If so, the next generation of babies will be evenly sexually matched
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I want to credit Scientific American for much of what I have written about this subject.