Reaping what you sow
I don't understand it... China's been doing so well with everything else lately...
The gender imbalance in China has reached alarming levels far exceeding UN recommendations, says China's Family Planning Association (CFPA).**********
There were 163.5 boys for every 100 girls aged up to four in the eastern city of Lianyungang, it said.
Abortions of female foetuses were the main cause of the imbalance, CFPA said.
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Even if you don't have a problem with abortion... there's still a huge problem here.
The babies first born 25 years ago under China's government enforced one-child policy are now of marrying age.**********
Some say that as many as 40 million young Chinese men might be unable to find a wife and will spend their lives as bachelors.
FROM THE COMMENTS: I missed the geopolitical aspect
"The Mongolians, Russians and Vietnamese should harden their borders. Within the next 10-20 years, China will conduct a war of conquest to use up its excess males usefully before they destroy the state."
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3 comments:
The problem isn't going to be so much for China as for its neighbours. Historically, a country that has a surplus of males has a powerful incentive to use them for conquest. Kept woman-less with no hope for procreation, the surplus males would soon turn upon the state, failing another outlet. The Mongolians, Russians and Vietnamese should harden their borders. Within the next 10-20 years, China will conduct a war of conquest to use up its excess males usefully before they destroy the state. It'll be ugly, no doubt about it.
Law of unforeseen consequences.
Also, interesting, is that this is the ultimate effect of the law of personal interest.
A man can better contribute to the well being of his parents and siblings as it is in China.
So in their personal interest, parents abort females.
Which results in huge consequences.
Sorta like us not replacing outselves and aborting both genders in the interest of convenience and at the expense of eliminating our tribe of caucs.
Just FYI:
In India, in the poor provinces with gender imbalance, wife-kidnapping and wife-buying is not uncommon. Women are basically sold as slaves to be married. I think there might be some of this going on in China, too.
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