After the Chinese began to enforce a one-child-only policy,
in an attempt to stem overpopulation, Chinese parents began
committing "gendercide" by abandoning or aborting their
daughters. Family planner Gu Baochang calls it "the largest,
the highest, and the longest" gender imbalance in the world.
This is a time bomb that is getting ready to explode, as
millions of young Chinese men face a future without the
possibility of marriage.
Eric Baculinao writes in NBC News that from a relatively
normal ratio of 108.5 boys to 100 girls in the 19 80s, the
male surplus rose to 111 in 1990, 116 in 2000, and is now is
close to 120 boys for each 100 girls. The UN?s Khalid Malik
says this is a "huge societal issue. In eight to 10 years,
we will have something like 40 to 60 million missing women."
This will have "enormous implications" for China's
prostitution industry, causing a large increase in AIDS.
In the 1980's cheap and portable ultrasound scanners made it
possible to identify female fetuses easily and abort them.
Population expert Chu Junhong says, "Prenatal sex selection
was probably the primary cause, if not the sole cause, for
the continuous rise of the sex ratio at birth."
Family planner Dr. Gu Baochang says, "We still have a lot of
work to do. There's no road map yet on how to achieve the
goal of normal sex ratio."
The thought of all these ghostly girls is appalling. Learn
about one mother right here in the U.S. who adopted a family
of
ghost
children.
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