Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
China's gender imbalance concerns reborn
Gender preference seems to have gone too
far to fetal gender determination. Traditionally, especially in rural area,
boys have been preferred over girls in China. Ever since the government
launched its one-child policy in the 1970s to curb soaring population growth, many
couples have been choosing boys over girls hoping that males would better
support the family, carry on the family line and inherit property like its
feudal days. With modern affordable technologies and services, parents can
easily find which gender their unborn baby is. Then considerable number of parents
seems to have been taking a fatal action to their unborn baby girls, which
resulted in serious gender imbalance. Two or three decades later when those preferred
boys become adult and search for their mates, they’ll face difficulty in
finding ones.
Enjoy reading and thinking what immediate and
permanent solutions could be.
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