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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (77429)	7/31/2008 7:01:54 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543192

I agree with you that there is another way to look at the issue and at least for the time being there is no reason to sound alarms. There are actually multiple views that can be, and should be, considered because the issue is multifacited and presents itself differently depending on circumstance. There is even the possibility of benefits coming to female populations in places where being female has historically been undervalued. The world culture we live in and have institutionalized was based on there being more women than men. The situation has been reversed and drastically reversed in many parts of the world in one generation without the expectation for systematic change as a consequence. the family planning group reports that 99 cities out of 125 surveyed had ratios higher than 125-100. ---which has already led to the selling of girl babies, forced marriages, sexual slavery, an increase in crime and a host of other social problems. The shortage of women is creating a "huge societal issue,” warned U.N. resident coordinator Khalid Malik earlier this year. Along with HIV/AIDS and environmental degradation, he said it was one of the three biggest challenges facing China. "In eight to 10 years, we will have something like 40 to 60 million missing women," he said, adding that it will have "enormous implications" for China's prostitution industry and human trafficking. Western scholars had this to say. “The growing crime rate in China which is being linked to China's massive "floating" or transient population, some 80 million of which are low-status males, seems to add weight to their observation.”