Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Rebalancing skewed sex
ratio remains a difficult target: Govt
Is the one-child policy
to be blamed? China’s gender ratio at birth is critically imbalanced. In
general, a male-female ratio between 103 and 107 at birth is considered normal.
But in China, the ratio is still over 115 in 2014 despite the efforts and
initiatives taken by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, including
the relaxed one-child policy in certain regions.
Why so? Chinese people
prefer having a boy because of the social and economic factors. Also the
one-child policy encouraged parents to become even more selective.
How do they realize such selection?
Doctors and hospitals are helping those parents by providing illegal fetus sex
identification and sex-selective abortions.
Will those newly born and
growing boys be able to find their partners in the future? What will they need
to find their partners, fortune, status, wealth, prospects or appearance?
Enjoy reading and
thinking what is and will be China’s families like.
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