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2006-01-09 India-Pakistan

India '~~loses~~ aborts 10m female births'

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-09 06:53|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2006-01-09 08:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-01-09 10:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-01-09 13:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-01-09 18:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-01-09 19:24|| Front Page Top

#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.

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#7 South Korea also has a skewed sex ratio due to selective female abortions.

Posted by john 2006-01-09 20:52|| 2006-01-09 20:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Feminists knew this was going to happen for years, as detailed in 1985's Gendercide, by Mary Anne Warren.

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