Re:Selective abortion in India could lead to 6.8m fewer girl...
by 28194608 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:06AM
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This is huge even though there's law against gender determination in India. Unless people are educated or dowries are strictly made illegal this can't be stopped.
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Re:Selective abortion in India could lead to 6.8m fewer girl...
by 1cvmask on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:15AM
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People perform abortions for a myriad of reasons in societies where it is legal. Preference for a gender over another seems like just another reason on an individual basis. On a societal basis where most people commit abortion for the same reason seems like it will have big repercussions down the road.
I wonder if anyone has tried to model economic, business, societal and cultural outcomes of this. Will it even change TV shows or movies?
This seems like an interesting A/B test of societies around the world.
In history there used to be a male deficit in many societies after wars. I don't remember seeing many specific studies on that.
Re:Selective abortion in India could lead to 6.8m fewer girl...
by naruvimama on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:10PM
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"Dowry" is conflated, while dowry itself isn't an Indian term, in the Indian context it is often jewellery given to the bride by her parents often in lieu of her share of property.
A witch hunt against this practice has actually worked against the women, and many are deprived of their ancestral property rights.
A lot of women in Europe aren't even aware of their property rights, the first son generally gets the farm and the daughters get nothing (even if the farm is ancestral).