IN INDIA each year, it is estimated that as many as a million baby girls are aborted by parents determined not to raise a daughter. The war against baby girls has spread to South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, to the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, and even to Asian-American communities in the United States. And if you think that the antidote to this “gendercide’’ is modernization, better living standards, and more education, think again. boston/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/03/14/100_million_missing_girls/
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:00:07 +0000
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