Gendercide

My friend Dorian sent me a copy of a chilling article from The Economist titled, "The Worldwide War on Baby Girls." Often we view gendercide as "an unintended consequence of China's one-child policy, or as a product of poverty or ignorance." Yet that can't be the whole story. Modernization and rising incomes make it easier and more desirable to select the sex of a child, which people do even in areas without the one-child policy. And that's bad news for girls. And to make matters worse, according to WHO, female suicide rates in China and South Korea are among the highest in the world. "The journalist Xiran Xue thinks they cannot live with the knowledge that they have aborted or killed their baby daughters."

Where have all the young girls gone?