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Unnatural selection : choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men

Unnatural selection : choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men

Book 2012

"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" fr...