Because traditionally, the Chinese men take care of their elder parents, where the females get married & go help take care of her husband's parents. So the boys are a security blanket for the parents when they get old.
I was told last week that the current rate of boys to girls in China is 4 to 1. So unless the girls want to take on multiple husbands, China will have a shortatge of future boys AND girls here in about 20 years!
2006-11-28 13:25:11
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answered by Girl named Sue 4
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I think it's mainly the one-child policy. There's a strong cultural preference for boys in China and much of Asia. Better off city-dwellers can get an ultrasound to see the sex of their baby long before it's born and terminate the pregnancy if it's a girl. But the poor and people in rural areas just have to carry the baby to term. I read that abortions of baby girls are so common in China and India that there aren't going to be enough women to go around in a generation.
Having two kids of my own and remembering how beautiful, tiny and vulnerable they were when they were born, I can't fathom how someone could abandon their own child to likely death as so many do. It just shows how hard life must be when you aren't free and you're desperate.
2006-11-28 21:23:07
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answered by Rob B 4
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Yes, because of the one-child policy applying to most families, and because in traditional Chinese society boys were valued over girls. Families--especially in rural areas--will sometimes abandon a newborn daughter in the hopes of having a boy with their next pregnancy.
2006-11-28 21:25:39
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answered by DiAnne 2
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because chinese girls dont work as well in the field, but something interestting has happened in the last year. there are so few girls that now the government is paying you to have girls. But if you look at the demographics it is too late. China will never be a long term threat to us because they don't have enough women to carry on the country
2006-11-28 21:21:54
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answered by cheezelord 2
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becuase the chinese thnk that guys are better than girls(physically) but the abandoned girls get adopted by loving parents else where so alls well. and dont insult the chinese cuz im part chinese.(somehow i still have redish brown hair...)
2006-11-28 21:19:54
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answered by Shmily P 3
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A girl can't carry on their family name.
2006-11-28 21:18:19
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answered by i luv teh fishes 7
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Well, I guess I owe my sister an apology, she told me that was true & I told her that, that couldn't happen in this day and age & that she didn't know what she was talking about.
2006-11-28 21:30:23
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answered by gitsliveon24 5
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