Sentences with phrase «abort female children»
As a result of the one - child Policy, many families began to selectively abort female children in order to try to have boys, who are traditionally preferred due to the cultural expectation that men will help support the family and take care of their parents in old age.
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no one is holding a gun to any females head saying you will abort this child.
Foreign groups blame the one - child policy for encouraging couples who want sons to abort female unborn children or kill baby girls.
In countries like China and India, parents indicate their preference for male over female children by selective abortions (allowed by pre-natal screening), which abort a disproportionate number of female fetuses.
When reports that couples squeezed by the one - child policy were aborting female fetuses first trickled out of China in the early 1980s, it could hardly have been a surprise.