Where Have All The Young Girls Gone: Is China Running Out Of Females?

In 1999, Jonathan Manthorpe reported a study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, claiming that "the imbalance between the sexes is now so distorted that there are 111 million men in China -- more than three times the population of Canada -- who will not be able to find a wife." As a result, the kidnapping and slave-trading of women has increased: "Since 1990, say official Chinese figures, 64,000 women -- 8,000 a year on average -- have been rescued by authorities from forced 'marriages'. The number who have not been saved can only be guessed at. ... The thirst for women is so acute that the slave trader gangs are even reaching outside China to find merchandise. There are regular reports of women being abducted in such places as northern Vietnam to feed the demand in China." (Jonathan Manthorpe, "China battles slave trading in women: Female infanticide fuels a brisk trade in wives," The Vancouver Sun, January 11, 1999.)
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Chinese parents must overcome their preference for boys or risk losing 40 million to 60 million girls to abortion and murder in the next decade, creating a "huge societal issue," the U.N. resident coordinator in the country, Khalid Malik, said yesterday ahead of the release next week of a U.N. report on China.

According to official government figures, there are 100 girls for every 116 boys in China. Other estimates put the gender ratio even higher, at 100 girls to 122 boys. In most countries, the number of boys for every 100 girls is between 104 and 106.
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Originally posted by drunk
I think its stupid how the govt can have a prefrence as to what sex a baby is.

The one-child policy was established in 1979 to limit communist China's population growth. It limits couples to one child. Fines, pressures to abort a pregnancy, and even forced sterilization accompanied second or subsequent pregnancies.

It is not an all-encompassing rule because it has always been restricted to ethnic Han Chinese living in urban areas. Citizens living in rural areas and minorities are not subject to the law. However, the rule has been estimated to have reduced population growth in the country of 1.25 billion by as much as 300 million people over the past twenty years.

This rule has caused a disdain for female infants; abortion, neglect, abandonment, and even infanticide have been known to occur to female infants. The result of such Draconian family planning has resulted in the disparate ratio of 118 males for every 100 females (105 males are naturally born for every 100 females). To reduce such differences, China has recently allowed some parents of a female to try for a male as their second child.

Now that millions of sibling-less people in China are now young adults in or nearing their child-bearing years, a special provision allows millions of couples to have two children legally. If a couple is composed of two people without siblings, then they may have two children of their own, thus preventing too dramatic of a population decrease.

Originally posted by Pisky
What do you get if your culture kills all the girl children ?

a) The end of that culture within a generation.
b) Lots of gay men.

Originally posted by Byrd
Yes to the first, but "no" to the second. There's no increase in homosexuality in China.

As one high Chinese official said, "The numbers mean that some people will never have their need for a spouse met, so they move into dangerous territory". This territory can include, as one Chinese magazine stated, not just kidnapping brides, but prostitution, rape and homosexuality. Urban crime is on the rise, and experts believe it is perpetrated by the migrant male workers living on the fringes of urban society. Chinese authorities worry that social deviancy will lead to political unrest. This is where security concerns come into play, both internal security within China and international security concerns with the United States and China's neighbors.
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Originally posted by FredT
As one high Chinese official said, "The numbers mean that some people will never have their need for a spouse met, so they move into dangerous territory". This territory can include, as one Chinese magazine stated, not just kidnapping brides, but prostitution, rape and homosexuality. Urban crime is on the rise...

Originally posted by ThunderCloud
Sex and love are two of the most basic human needs, and to suppress it with no release at all will just lead to severe depression.

Originally posted by marg6043
Sufup sex and love are basic needs part of the make up of the human being to take away this needs and chaos is going to come out it.

Originally posted by surfup
You guys aren't looking it from the cultural view point, just because you live in a society which embraces sex and love, it doesn't mean others have to too. Maybe China is the kind of country that gives importance to its nation rather than sex, love and money.

Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
"A Nation Without Women" is a bizarre take on this phenomenon, from an Indian perspective.

Originally posted by zcheng
Glad. you are so concerned for life of Chinese men. Anyone have a good solution for the lack of brides?