Statement of Valerie Hudson, PhD, Prof. Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University, on sex ratios in China:
“Overall, there are at least 90 million missing women in Asia, and over 10% of young adult men in these nations will be hard-pressed to form traditional families of their own…
The 2010 Census in China provides the most recent comprehensive statistics for China’s population, but only preliminary results have been released thus far. According to the census the overall sex ratio in China was 105.2, far above the 98 – 99 that is normal. The birth sex ratio of China in 2010 was over 118. We have more detailed figures from the 2000 census. Of the 14 million births from November 1999 to November 2000, 7.6 million were male and only 6.5 million were female, resulting in a birth sex ratio of 116.9 China’s birth sex ratio has been increasing for the past 20 years: in 1981, shortly after the introduction of China’s one child policy designed to slow population growth, the sex ratio at birth was 108.5. Birth sex ratios vary from province to province, with only 2 provinces at or near the expected sex ratio of 105.0 (Tibet and Xinjiang) and some provinces exhibiting sex ratios as high as 128.2 (Hubei), 130.3, (Guangdong), and 135.6 (Hainan). We look forward to the release of these types of detailed figures from a 2010 census in the near future.
Childhood sex ratios are similarly high: sex ratios for children ages 1 – 4 have increased from 107.0 in 1982 to 120.8 in 2000. Early childhood sex ratios vary from China according to the 2000 census, with only one province (Tibet) exhibiting a sex ratio at or below ratio of 105.0 and 10 provinces exhibiting sex ratios above China’s average (with ratios as high as 135.7 in Hainan, 136.4 in Henan and 136.8 in Jiangxi). Whereas childhood sex ratios typically fall below that of the birth sex ratio due to higher male infant and early childhood mortality patterns, some of China’s childhood sex ratios are actually higher than birth sex ratios, indicating the presence of discriminatory practices against female infants and children.…
One of the few “laws” in sociology is that male criminal behavior drops significantly upon marriage or serious commitment… The foremost repercussions will be an increase in societal instability marked by increases in crime, violent crime, crimes against women, vice, substance abuse, and the formation of gangs involved in all of these antisocial behaviors.”
“China’s One Child Policy: the Government’s Massive Crime against Women and Unborn Babies” Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights, Committee of Foreign Affairs House Of Representatives 112th Congress, September 22, 2001
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