Baby Girls Missing Globally
By C-Fam Staff | March 4, 2010
Today The Economist published an article entitled “The worldwide war on baby girls.” The article points out that the preference for a boy child is not limited to countries like China and India, but is also problematic in countries like Russia, Georgia, South Korea, Armenia and in the United States.
Nick Eberstadt, a demographer at the American Enterprise Institute states that it is not a country’s particular policy but “the fateful collision between overweening son preference, the use of rapidly spreading prenatal sex-determination technology and declining fertility.”
The good news is that in India, according to Monica Gupta of the World Bank, we are beginning to see a turnaround because of anti-discrimination laws and media campaigns.
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