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more about #demographics more comments → jcous: Damn, my heart goes out to this generation. Good luck getting girlfriends. more » screaminscott: Maybe China will decide to start a war, so they can use all their extra males as 'cannon fodder'. more » twophrasebark: What about an emigration program? Seems like that would solve the problem. more » Quilt: I can tell you what I'd do. Kill myself. Life without women? No thanks. more » Cozmic: you know...when you put all male rats in a cage by, eventually they have sex with each other, so I predict a rise in homosexuality in CHina in coming ... more » mustlovebooknerd: I foresee women with man-harems and lots of gay secks. :-D more » Chip Overclock: Even more interesting, IMHO, than the male/female ratio is the fact that because of the One Child policy, the PRC is raising an entire generation or m... more » Life-Without-Buildings: In Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars, an interesting alternative to this problem is proposed. During a hypothetical overpopulation analysis "game," on... more » grrl: What I find telling about this post and most of the responses is that they're all concerned about *the men*, treating it like this is a problem for th... more » Bloodboiler: For ideas about what's going to happen, see any historical or current society that has few women. Ancient Athens and Sparta, bad prisons etc. It's goi... more » BullfightsOnAcid: Female prostitution will probably become one of the best paid jobs. Madams and pimps will become more powerful than elected officials. more » Harrison_Bergeron: "Some commentators have suggested that China gradually relax its population control policies, allowing people to create families of any size they like... more » rudecherub: In agreement with the obvious. This will end in social unrest. Back in my student days I developed a firm rule, if I find myself at a party where ther... more » Mark 2000: I'm sorry, but this is great. Both China and India are way over populated and both have an excess of boys. This is good for them and good for us. Fewe... more » Lifeisaglitch: Well they could have done without a one child policy....But that would have been bad. The blame lies on the families who chose too have gender based a... more » -
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With 32.7 Million "Excess Males," What Will Become of China?
For every 100 girls born in China during 2005, 120 boys were born. A new demographic study shows that the biggest population control experiment in history has turned China's youth into the "male generation."
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