Demographic Debates!
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers have expressed alarm about cultures that favor male babies, saying sex-ratio imbalances could destabilize society because more men will remain unmarried, raising the risks of anti-social and violent behavior.
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they said parts of China and India would have 12 percent to 15 percent more men over the next 20 years -- many of them rural peasants with limited education.
"The growing number of young men with a lack of family prospects will have little outlet for sexual energy," wrote Zhu Weixing of China's Zhejian Normal University and Therese Hesketh of the Institute of Child Health at University College London. [article].
So isn't it great? China is also the country that believes censorship can solve AIDS, so having lots of sexually frusterated men will help this problem? ... But they do have a middle class now which is a considerable wild card; particularly the younger members of this social class who are starting to assert their own identity. The latest big upsets seem to have come from the destruction of rural dogs, largely out of the city, and land seizures.
I also heard some of the excess men from previous generations just moved to Russia. Apparently it has become more popular to kidnap wives too, in some of the poorer communities where women aren't as interested in staying and marrying the men.
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they said parts of China and India would have 12 percent to 15 percent more men over the next 20 years -- many of them rural peasants with limited education.
"The growing number of young men with a lack of family prospects will have little outlet for sexual energy," wrote Zhu Weixing of China's Zhejian Normal University and Therese Hesketh of the Institute of Child Health at University College London. [article].
So isn't it great? China is also the country that believes censorship can solve AIDS, so having lots of sexually frusterated men will help this problem? ... But they do have a middle class now which is a considerable wild card; particularly the younger members of this social class who are starting to assert their own identity. The latest big upsets seem to have come from the destruction of rural dogs, largely out of the city, and land seizures.
I also heard some of the excess men from previous generations just moved to Russia. Apparently it has become more popular to kidnap wives too, in some of the poorer communities where women aren't as interested in staying and marrying the men.