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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 2006-01-09 |
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