• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The increase of male births can be linked to a historical preference for sons, a decline in birth rates driven by gender selection preferences and advancements in technology, such as ultrasound, that facilitate gender selection, according to the report.    The report also emphasized that the prolonged period of a skewed sex ratio at birth since the 1970s has had a significant impact on marriage rates. Regions with high marriage rate imbalances are characterized by particularly skewed sex ratios at birth during the 1980s and 1990s.

    So basically a lot of people saw a vagina in the ultrasound and decided quit and restart the level.

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      It’s now even before that

      I know of two couples that went to get IVF in China/Korea. Both got to choose the gender of the baby - aka they just test and insert the one that ticks the box.

      Both couples chose boys.

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      and now they’ve fucked over their preferred sons because in doing so they left them maidenless.

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      Why is there a preference for sons? Is it because they would traditionally get better jobs and take care of their parents or…?

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          I know That’s a fairly common experience elsewhere. I have a cousin who is a fourth of his name. I think he or his wife understood the twisted family dynamic that came with playing favorites like that because they didn’t carry on the tradition when they had their son.

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        I was told in Asian society the women marries into the males family and basically forsakes her original one. So patents need males to take care of them when they are okd. I dk if it’s BS.