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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (130088)10/18/2001 2:10:37 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
WLD do not understand your point, as in India and China the parents do not want girls

Modern Asia's Anomaly: The Girls Who Don't Get Born

Yet, despite this progress, female fetuses are being aborted at startling rates in China and across broad swaths of India, new census data shows. As the population of girls relative to boys has tumbled in northern and western India over the past decade, these regions have begun to catch up with China's dismal statistics. The spread of ultrasound technology in these societies, with their strong preferences for sons, has made it easy to find out the sex of a child before birth and to abort unwanted daughters. ......................Before ultrasound, girls were sometimes victims of infanticide, but much more commonly they were victims of neglect — not fed as well as boys or taken to the doctor as quickly.

nytimes.com
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