We've heard the scare stories:
A bias in favor of male offspring has left China with 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls, creating “an imminent generation of excess men, and an explosion of homosexuality” a study released Friday said.
For the next 20 years, China will have increasingly more men than women of reproductive age, according to the paper, which was published online by the British Medical Journal.“Nothing can be done now to prevent this,” the researchers said.
And:
More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses by 2020, says the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The gender imbalance among newborns is the most serious demographic problem for the country's population of 1.3 billion, says the academy.
It cites sex-specific abortions as a major factor, due to China's traditional bias towards male children.
The academy says gender selection abortions are "extremely common".
But the solution to the nightmare gay plague gender imbalance scenario may now finally be at hand :
High property prices and economic development have begun to erode China’s traditional preference for sons, leading to a rise in the number of Chinese parents who say they would prefer a daughter....
"Sons bring economic pressure ... [but] ‘a daughter is a warm jacket for a mother’".
Score one for capitalism.
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