A book on the causitives and consequences of gender preferences regarding the birth of infants. The text thoroughly examines the complex web of social mores and government interference both locally and from abroad that prompted the male over population crisis gripping India and China and spreading to regions previously unaffected.
This gender imbalance has not only created an economic demand for women it has created whole new markets for exploitation, as well as hold all the ingredients for the social unrest recipe.
In this book Hvistendahl lays bare the dangers of messing with Mother Nature regarding gender selection.
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" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval.
Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them.
I figured that after each text I read for notes to complete my review of "Call to Action" By President Carter I'm entitled to take a coffee break and post something.