India's skewed sex ratio

The Economist ^ | The Economist

[AfricanChristian]

“WE’RE going for a trip”, Sakina remembers her older sister saying. Orphaned and poor, the girls were happy to leave their home in Kolkata. Taken 1,300km to Kotla, a village on the wheat plains south of Delhi, the 12-year-old Sakina was dumped in the arms of an older man while her sister fled. The man, a wage labourer, had paid over 5,000 rupees ($100, today) to a dalal, or broker, who arranged to ship unwanted girls to places short of them.

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A skewed sex ratio may instead be making the lot of women worse. Sociologists say it encourages abuse, notably in the trafficking of the sort that Sakina first suffered from but is now ready to pay for. Reports circulate of unknown numbers of girls who are drugged, beaten and sometimes killed by traffickers. Others, willingly or not, are brought across India’s borders, notably from Bangladesh and Myanmar. “Put bluntly, it’s a competition over scarce women”, says Ravinder Kaur of the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi.

[MNDude]

a 1203 word article that talks about missing girls, and the word “abortion” doesn’t appear once. I can’t imagine any other than murder that these girls would disappear.

[RegulatorCountry]

Well I’ll be. Neighboring China has the same problem.

I’m sure between the two of them, they’ll eventually find a solution.

[Yardstick]

The “missing girls” are usually aborted, shortly after the parents learn of their sex. A short drive from Kotla to Nuh, a typical trading town, shows how. The main road is dotted with clinics that boast of ultrasound services. Requests for a scan to check the sex of a fetus are turned down at “Bharat Ultrasound” and “City Care Hospital”, but a nervous medic at one does recommend a place that would do it.

[JimWayne]

Economist is a criminal organization that came up with a similar story a few months ago. In that story, they justified baby-murders in the US and quoted Slick Willie to justify the crimes in the US. The total abortions in the US exceed those in India. In the US, the liberals kill both boys and girls. So it is worse here. Block baby murders here.

[GreyMountainReagan]

a 1203 word article that talks about missing girls, and the word “abortion” doesn’t appear once. I can’t imagine any other than murder that these girls would disappear.

It is obvious you either did not read the article or did not comprehend it.

[ken21]

the economist is owned by the rothchilds of london?

[JimWayne]

It is obvious you either did not read the article or did not comprehend it.

I don't agree with you. I think MNDude is right. The leftist journalists have carefully avoided the word abortion because these racists believe that they have a right to kill babies but can at the same time pass judgment on Indians. The truth is that the liberals kill babies on a scale that would dwarf all the abortions in China and India put together. The liberals just don't want to admit that they are wrong.

[Tax-chick]

I’m sure between the two of them, they’ll eventually find a solution.

A "Washing of the Spears" solution, I'm thinking: pick a fight to kill off your excess young-adult male population. But who's going to fight them, unless they fight each other?

[RegulatorCountry]

But who's going to fight them, unless they fight each other?

That's the solution.

[GreyMountainReagan]

I don't agree with you. I think MNDude is right. The leftist journalists have carefully avoided the word abortion because these racists believe that they have a right to kill babies but can at the same time pass judgment on Indians.

I agree with your statement about leftist journalist but the article DID mention abortion. Did you read the article?

[Uncle Miltie]

The Economist is a Euro-Socialist Anti-American Keynesian pro-tax rag. The Socialist Party couldn’t come up with a better fig leaf.

“Economist”. PAH!

[Tax-chick]

China vs. India? I’m sure Sheldon and Amy could come up with a persuasive scenario in the time it takes me to pour another drink .... ;-).

[RegulatorCountry]

So you’ve finally met Amy, lol? She puts the “d” in both deadpan and dour.

[Tax-chick]

She arrived in the closing episode of Season 3. “I’d like a tepid water, please.” Netflix doesn’t have season 4 yet, but we did see a couple of Youtube clips. I remember when she was “Blossom.”

One of my choir-ladies said today that we shouldn’t tell Pat he’s weird, or he’ll get a complex, and I said, “What’s this we’ve got now, hon?”

[Forgiven_Sinner]

“a 1203 word article that talks about missing girls, and the word “abortion” doesn’t appear once. I can’t imagine any other than murder that these girls would disappear.”

However, this sentence is there: “The “missing girls” are usually aborted, shortly after the parents learn of their sex.”

What ticks me off is they are giving the ratio of births but no where do they give the national population ratio. China has tens of millions more men than women; I want to compare India to them.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Here’s the answer:
from http://finance.indiamart.com/india_business_information/india_age_sex_population_ration.html

India’s Population by Age & Sex
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Punjab and Haryana, 704 females per 1000 males

Sex ratio (the number of females per 1000 males) for India is 933 females per 1000 males. It is an improvement of 6 points over 927 earlier recorded in 1991 Census. Like the 1991 Census, the highest sex ratio (1058) has been reported in Kerala. Haryana has reported the lowest sex ratio of 861 among the major states. One of the interesting fact that has emerged, is that the sex ratio of child population in age group 0-6 is 927. The child sex ratio in 1991 was 945. The sharpest decline in sex ratio of the child population has been observed in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, uttranchal, Maharashtra and Union territory of Chandigarh.

Country 0-14 years 15-64 years 65 years and older Total
male female male female male female
China 168,040,006 152,826,953 439,736,737 413,454,673 41,200,297 46,573,816 1,261,832,482
India 175,228,164 165,190,951 324,699,562 301,821,383 23,925,371 23,138,386 1,014,003,817

Source: Census of India 2001

Sex Ratio In India in 100 years
Years Sex Ratio
1901 972
1911 964
1921 955
1931 950
1941 945
1951 946
1961 941
1971 930
1981 934
1991 927
2001 933

Source: Census of India 2001

Normal sex ratio at birth: 940-950 girls per 1000 boys

India’s sex ratio at brith: 976/1000 in 1961 to 927/1000 in 2001.
The availability of technology to determine the sex of the foetus and the practice of aborting a female foetus are given as the reasons for such adverse sex ratios.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Here’s data from 2007:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India

Age structure:
0-14 years: 31.1% (male 190,075,426/female 172,799,553) (2009 est.)
15-64 years: 63.6% (male 381,446,079/female 359,802,209) (2009 est.)
65-over: 5.3% (male 29,364,920/female 32,591,030) (2009 est.)

So now there is about a 22 million deficit in childbearing years.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

“The total abortions in the US exceed those in India”

Not correct. India has about 6.5 million abortions/year

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-09-15/india/28266685_1_unsafe-abortions-abortion-numbers-mtps

US has about 1.2 million.

http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html

[SuziQ]

I sponsor a young girl at a "Home of Hope" orphanage in Secunderabad. It's the sister orphanage to one in Kochi. Both are for little girls who are either orphaned, or who have been dropped at the home by extended family members who cannot care for them, or by policemen who found them with gangs of beggars. There is no 'safety net' for them, and the Salesian Sisters opened the homes to care for them. Many were in danger of being sold into slavery, like the girl in this story, or as a prostitute. The Sisters also have schools for both boys and girls who would otherwise not be educated.

If anyone is interested, you can check out their website, Home of Hope India