i thought this article was very interesting...this didn't happen by chance...unfortunately not well planned...the generation of chinese that birthed all of these boys and chose to abort/adopt their females was very selfish... Jan. 11) -- More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without a woman to wed by 2020, and a Chinese proclivity to abort female fetuses is a major contributing factor, a major study has found. Gender imbalance among newborns is the most serious demographic problem facing the country's population of 1.3 billion, the study by the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says. "Sex-specific abortions remained extremely commonplace," the academy said, "especially in rural areas,'' where the cultural preference for boys over girls is strongest. China Photos / Getty Images A shortage of women of marriageable age is projected to hit men in rural areas of China particularly hard, a study says. Ultrasound scans, introduced in the late 1980s, have increased sex-specific abortions in a country where there has been a traditional bias toward male children, largely because their greater earning potential is seen as increasing their ability to look after aging parents. The latest figures show that for every 100 girls born in China, 119 boys are born, the academy says in a new book, according to a report on the study today in the official Global Times. However, the study said that in some areas, the ratio was as high as 130 males for every 100 females, a report by the Mirror Evening newspaper said. A researcher interviewed by the Global Times, Wang Guangzhou, said that men living in less-prosperous areas of China could find themselves marrying later in life or remaining unmarried all their lives. "The chance of getting married will be rare if a man is more than 40 years old in the countryside,'' Wang told paper. "They will be more dependent on social security as they age and have fewer household resources to rely on." The government policy introduced in 1979 of encouraging married couples not to have more than one child has contributed to the problem, the study said, as well as China's insufficient social security system. There is also a reluctance among young urban Chinese to have a first or second child, the BBC reported. Abductions and trafficking of women are "rampant" in areas with excess numbers of men, The Global Times reported, citing findings by China's National Population and Family Planning Commission. Illegal marriages and forced prostitution were also problems in those areas, the paper said in a
there is so much more to this than the article even touches on...obviously the chinese government was not thinking long term...if 24 million chinese men do not wed then they solely take on the responsibility of caring for their parents...live alone and then who takes care of them? more than likely if they don't wed then there will be no reproduction...this means that family trees come to a dead end for 24 million families...the majority of these families only had one child so there is no extended family... i wonder how long it will take the chinese to figure out the numbers and make changes...
My cousin adopted a baby girl (well, she's like 8 now) from China from an orphanage due to this very problem. It's really sad.
This story reminded me of Chinas Dead baby girls left in the gutter pictures that I saw in the papers ages ago. Found a pic, click the link as I don't think that it's a appropriate image to paste on the Board, so horrible. http://www.taliacarner.com/deadnewborningutter.html
That is why there are 100 million more men than women in China today. In the olden days before abortion. If a girl was born first, the father would bring them up into the mountains and abandon them there. This would keep happening until the first born was a boy. I know this Chinese guy whose grandfather abandoned four girls in the mountains before their first boy was born. A nice stranger could have picked them up and raised them. But more likely than not, the baby girls all died.
Maybe the chinese need to move into other parts of the world and get women for these excess male populations. I hear they are doing this in latin america. Plenty of women there.
There's over 1.3 billion Chinese..some of those family trees need to come to an end...a LOT more as a matter of fact.
