"Better 500 rupees now than 5,000 later," reads one ad put out by an Indian clinic, a reference to the price of a sex test versus the cost of a dowry.
So apparently since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons. First of all in nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. According to Adam & Eve, women were made from Adam's rib, so I can understand that. However, this article reports greater numbers in India (112:100), China (121:100), Azerbaijan (115:100), and Armenia (120:100). This is due to females aborting their babies once they find out the sex is female.
Why are parents demanding boys over girls in this century? Its been proven that women are more intelligent than men! (Just had to throw that in there.) Now there is an increase of violence in India, the author claims the best predictor of violence and crime for any given area is not income but sex ratio. There are not enough women to marry the "surplus of men," accumulating in the lower classes. These unmarried, limited income men are at a higher risk for being trouble makers already.
After doing my project on Jean Kilbourne's "Killing Us Softly" research, I came to think about how women are turned into objects by their depictions in media. But articles like this is proof that media is not too be given the majority of credit for this social disaster. If children are killed off before they are out of the womb due to the fact that they are female, we are cultivating a society that is bound to treat females unequally.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576361691165631366.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
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