The Causes, Consequences, and Reasons for Female Infanticide in China Female infanticide is a great problem in China today where many women and children are being affected. People around the world are being affected by adopting many of these young girls. One forth of adoptions comes from China and almost all are girls (China’s Lost Girls). The term female infanticide means the act of getting rid of your female child/fetus whether that is by means of abandonment, abortion, or killing shortly after birth. Many people in China are affected by many causes for female infanticide and although they know the terrible consequences people still abandon, abort, and even kill their female infants because of the fear of losing their marriage, tradition,
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Gender imbalance not only a result of female infanticide, but the imbalance also leads to other violence as well. There should be around 105 women for every100 men. However, in China the ratio is only 94 women to 100 men (Gupta). With this great unbalance of women to men, many will not be able to find wives in the near future. In 2020, 40 million men will not be able to find a spouse (China’s Lost Girls). With the low supply of wives people have turned to violence to get to women. The violence is already present to day and as time passes the violence will continue to get worse. The effects of the imbalance include prostitution, forced marriages and the kidnapping of women. The women held under these conditions are being treated badly and many are beaten, bruised, and have broken bones if they ever found and treated (China’s Lost Girls). One woman was abducted and sold for only 435 American dollars to a man that forced her to marry him. The man repetitively raped her until she produced a son. This woman was one of the lucky who was rescued from her husband (China’s Lost Girls). This true story is only one of the many who suffer this fate today. Because of gender imbalance, women are suffering terrible abuse and …show more content…
Because families are only allowed to have one child, they tend to spoil them. The term for these spoiled kids is “little emperors” (China’s Lost Girls). These “little emperors” get whatever they want including food. In Beijing for example, there is a, “consistent and rapid increasing shift of overweight/obesity in Chinese metropolises in recent years” (Ji). There has been an up rise in childhood obesity because parents want to spoil their only child. Because of female infanticide, there would be no term “little emperors” because there would be more girls than boys and the word “emperor” would then not be
Gender imbalance not only a result of female infanticide, but the imbalance also leads to other violence as well. There should be around 105 women for every100 men. However, in China the ratio is only 94 women to 100 men (Gupta). With this great unbalance of women to men, many will not be able to find wives in the near future. In 2020, 40 million men will not be able to find a spouse (China’s Lost Girls). With the low supply of wives people have turned to violence to get to women. The violence is already present to day and as time passes the violence will continue to get worse. The effects of the imbalance include prostitution, forced marriages and the kidnapping of women. The women held under these conditions are being treated badly and many are beaten, bruised, and have broken bones if they ever found and treated (China’s Lost Girls). One woman was abducted and sold for only 435 American dollars to a man that forced her to marry him. The man repetitively raped her until she produced a son. This woman was one of the lucky who was rescued from her husband (China’s Lost Girls). This true story is only one of the many who suffer this fate today. Because of gender imbalance, women are suffering terrible abuse and …show more content…
Because families are only allowed to have one child, they tend to spoil them. The term for these spoiled kids is “little emperors” (China’s Lost Girls). These “little emperors” get whatever they want including food. In Beijing for example, there is a, “consistent and rapid increasing shift of overweight/obesity in Chinese metropolises in recent years” (Ji). There has been an up rise in childhood obesity because parents want to spoil their only child. Because of female infanticide, there would be no term “little emperors” because there would be more girls than boys and the word “emperor” would then not be