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India-Pakistan
Feticide means 7,000 fewer girls a day in India
2006-12-13
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Seven thousand fewer girls are born in India each day than the global average would suggest, largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

The problem of female feticide has significantly worsened since 1991, UNICEF said at the India launch of its "State of the World's Children 2007" report.

Out of 71,000 children born every day in India, just 31,000 are girls -- giving a sex ratio of 882 girls to 1,000 boys.

But the global sex ratio -- which is 954 girls to 1,000 boys -- suggests that 38,000 girls should be born in India every day.
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#10  So how long till the tradition of a paying a dowry to the grooms family disappears? Or reverses?
Posted by: DMFD   2006-12-13 19:58  

#9  So, long term...both India and China are gonna end up like San Francisco? This is a bad oman for Paki-Wakiland. Melikey!
Posted by: BA   2006-12-13 14:11  

#8  Actually, China is in the same boat as India. Chinese peasants have long killed or otherwise disposed of female babies (note that every single chinese child adopted by Americans is female). The single child policy greatly exacerbated the problem.

China Male-Female Ratio Worsening
SHANGHAI, China -- The lopsided male-female ratio in China caused by sex-selection abortions is worsening, pushed up to 120 men for every 100 women, a government newspaper says.

The report Thursday by the Shanghai Express newspaper on statistics from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences did not give an official explanation for the disparity, but cited unnamed experts who blamed it in part on pro-abortion attitudes that value boys over girls.

"This kind of imbalance also surely has something to do with the family planning policy" of one child per couple the newspaper said.

Foreign groups blame the one-child policy for encouraging couples who want sons to abort female unborn children or kill baby girls. The resulting shortage of women has meant that tens of millions of men remain unmarried and childless.

On average in the rest of the world, 106 baby boys are born for every 100 girls, but more boys die in childhood and the numbers tend to even out by adulthood.

China has enforced the pro-abortion one-child limit since the early 1980s to coercively slow the growth of its population.

Posted by: DoDo   2006-12-13 12:42  

#7  Literacy rate (2001 Indian census) - 65.38%
(Male 75.96% Female: 54.28%)

John, these literacy rates are over stated. My Indian wife, and family (most of them educators) say the literacy rates are 20% to 25% maximum.

And yes, a man with a daughter can get a fair price. However, most middle and upper middle class families do not practice the dowry/bride price system anymore. It is viewed as low-class/low-caste. Mostly, it is the *G.U.M.'s that still cling to the old ways.

*Great Unwashed Masses.


Posted by: Mick Dundee   2006-12-13 09:52  

#6  Hmmm...a generation down the line with an unhealthy proportion of males needing direction. Given how muzzies take their behavior and channel it into killing and terrorism, this may just be the ticket to send the Indians swarming on a grand adventure into the Northwest Territories and Persia. This may not be a bad thing in the long run.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2006-12-13 09:51  

#5  Literacy rate (2001 Indian census) - 65.38%
(Male 75.96% Female: 54.28%)

Even well educated and prosperous groups within India - like the Patels of Gujarat (who own about 50% of the motels in the US) have severely skewed sex ratios.

Faced with unmarried sons, they have begun to seek brides from other castes- tribals etc, from Bangladesh, Nepal etc.

Many poor fathers with daughters now find dozens of wealthy suitors lining up outside their front door.. all wishing to court their offspring.

So this might not be such a bad thing.. it is removing traditional caste barriers and increasing the status of women in Indian society.
Posted by: john   2006-12-13 09:28  

#4  It is interesting that they fail to disclose that the majority of the women aborting female fetuses are from the largely illiterate 80% of the population.

These would be the uneducated masses that cling slavishly to the old ways.

AzCat: It's their national survival instinct kicking in. If they're going to survive the century they're clearly going to need as many angry young men as China and Pakistan.

They already have plenty of angry young men with no hope of finding a wife. And they tend to trend younger than the Chinese. When the balloon goes up, Pakistan will disappear in a blink, China will take a little longer. I have my money on India.
Posted by: Mick Dundee   2006-12-13 09:15  

#3  It's their national survival instinct kicking in. If they're going to survive the century they're clearly going to need as many angry young men as China and Pakistan.
Posted by: AzCat   2006-12-13 03:13  

#2  Not a good long term idea, but it beats infanticide.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-12-13 00:59  

#1  So.. SanFran will eventually become a roll model for ... ducking...
Posted by: 3dc   2006-12-13 00:16  

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