When the Chinese Govt introduced it’s mandatory ‘one child only’ policy some years back an insidious and evil situation slowly began to emerge. Parents, desperate for a son to support them in their old age and carry on the family line, chose to abort baby girls and, in many cases too numerous to count, even killed their female babies at birth or simply abandoned them to orphanages. A son was and still is the preferred choice in this society; daughters were simply not wanted.

The effects on Chinese society, especially in the rural areas, has been devastating in the outcome. In the past 20-25 years males have grown to outnumber females in such a way that young males there now are unmarried into their thirties and still living at home with their parents. They can find no wife, they have no children. Many cannot find work as unmarried men are viewed with suspicion. Marriage is expected within this culture. Elderly people are bemoaning their son’s pathetic lack of social status and the fact that they have no grandchildren. But who do they have to blame but themselves?.

This horrendous social disaster is also occurring in places like India where female children are just as ‘inconvenient’ to couples. Baby girls are being aborted at an alarming rate, mothers who repeatedly produce female babies are divorced in some cases – many are even killed by their husband’s family. On the same scale, in a culture where men are expected to marry, produce children and support his parents, this same culture is experiencing a severe and devastating ‘lack’ of females across the country. However, in spite of this, many parents are requesting pregnancies be terminated if a scan shows the presence of a female baby. What is even worse, is that those Asian people now living in the UK are travelling to places like India to have sex-determination scans performed and returning to the UK ‘ready to start again’. You know what I mean by that.

It is sickening, and infuriating, to know that in the 21st century there are cultures demanding not only male dominance in society but are literally preventing the very existence of females at all. Even worse is their ignorance at what will happen as a result. Just where do these couples expect their sons to find a wife in years to come?. In a culture where a female is nothing more than a financial burden, and a mark of shame who must produce a valuable ‘dowry’ to a mans family before they will accept her as his wife, they are dieliberately creating a disastrous shortfall in eligible marriage opportunities for their sons in the near future.

You would think that this would make females more ‘valuable’ in the future, but somehow I think not. A young female will simply become even more of a ‘commodity’. And a dispensible one at that.

For a related article please read: Britains Missing Babies by Paul Bracchi