Boys are preferred to girls. It's a pattern that also exists in China. The two most populous nations in the world have a significant excess of males to females. That's a problem.
Long term, this imbalance between the sexes will mean millions of men may not ever marry. Female trafficking will increase.
This post is from a population analyst podcast about sex selective abortion in India here. Tomorrow: the Invisible Girl Project.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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