Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: March 02, 2023 09:29PM
I remain curious, regarding the one-child rule, how much the abortion of female fetuses impacted what was then their future and is now their present. It was instituted in 1979.
From a 1992 study: "The normal sex ratio at birth is 106 male births/100 female births, which was the ratio in China in the 1960s and 1970s. However, in 1981 it increased to 108.5, then to 110.9 in 1986, to 111.0 in 1987, and to 113.8 in 1989."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12318232/The study points out that 'underreporting' may also have been a factor, that is, a couple would hide the fact they'd had a baby girl, so that they could 'legally' try again... But that some pregnancies were terminated upon confirmation that the fetus was female was recognized as a factor, but between the two options, hiding the birth v. abortion, the true figures will never be known.
My point being that there are many Chinese males, up to 13% of the 1989 'harvest', who will never marry through sheer lack of brood stock.