UN report: Vietnam's desire grows for baby boys over girls; China, India still troubling

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 08:33 AM
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam's preference for baby boys over girls is further tipping Mother Nature's scale in Asia, already skewed by a strong bias for boys among Chinese and Indians. The trend could lead to increased trafficking of women and social unrest, a U.N. report says.

Vietnam is now positioned where China was a decade ago, logging about 110 boys born to every 100 girls in a country where technology is readily available to determine the sex of a fetus and where abortion is legal, according to research released this week by the U.N. Population Fund.

The sex ratio at birth generally should equal about 105 boys to 100 girls, according to the report.

"The consequences are already happening in neighboring countries like China, South Korea and Taiwan. They have to import brides," said Tran Thi Van, assistant country representative of the Population Fund in Hanoi, adding that many of those wives are coming from Vietnam. "I don't know where Vietnam could import brides from if that situation happened here in the next 10 or 15 years."

The report, which looked at China, India, Vietnam and Nepal, warned that tinkering with nature's probabilities could cause increased violence against women, trafficking and social tensions. It predicted a "marriage squeeze," with the poorest men being forced to live as bachelors.

Gender imbalance among births has been rising in parts of Asia since the 1980s, after amniocentesis and ultrasound were introduced to determine a fetus' sex early in pregnancy. Despite laws in several countries banning doctors from revealing the baby's sex, many women still find out and opt to abort females.



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i really doubt vietnam is committing infanticide and aborting females. technology in vietnam sucks so we don't have that option readily available like richer countries and we don't have a overwhelming incentive to kill off females.

We need to be extremely aggressive in countering this trend.

I'm seeing two sides of our people. One side with deep compassion, they value human lives, such as those parents that hang on to their agent orange infected children to the end and give them all the necessity (feeding, clothing etc..) they need to survive. The other side value wealth over human lives, throwing their children out, forcing them to marry forefingers for cash..etc.. For these people, I guess poverty crushed their spirits.

so...it just might happen...who knows..$hit...I'm not like Chinese or an Indian person, I don't like to have sex with my hand. Killing females is a waste of pussy . The whole country will be a sausage fest, I'm also not into gay sex either so these people should be punish if caught in the act of abortion. They will be stomp alive in public by 50 elephants after that they'll be throw in the tiger's pit in a local zoo, that'll teach them for being a bunch of b!tches that making our lives less enjoyable.

lol

I like girls, and I want to have lots of daughters!

Vietnam already has a population of over 83 million, thats staggering, when compared to your neighbors of Laos whom only has a population of 6.5 million. and Cambodia whom has a population of 14 million.

Vietnam please practice birth control, before you guys turn into china.

Also, those countries have decent-size Vietnamese communities

If population growth doesn't put burden on our economy, I'll two thumbs up on having as many babies as possible. When we have a large population, we become a powerful country. In fact, we can just push our large population westward.

Or do like the Chinese and push your population on every freaking country on the face of this earth. I swear the Chinese needs to colonize the Moon and Mars, because there is not enough room for the Chinese on planet earth.