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Only recently and in some countries (particularly South Korea) have the development and educational campaigns begun to turn the tide, resulting in more normal gender ratios.[9]

Punjab

1980s, girls were not receiving inferior treatment if a girl was born as a first child in a given family, when the parents still had high hopes for obtaining a son later. Subsequent births of girls were however unwelcome, because each such birth diminished a chance of the family having a son.

educated women would have fewer offspring, and therefore were under more acute pressure to produce a son as early as possible

affluent families opt for an abortion

r if a girl is born

decrease her chance of survival

One reason for parents, even mothers, to avoid daughters

As parents grow

expect much more help and support from their independent sons, than from daughters, who after getting married become in a sense property of their husbands' families

Women are also often practically unable to inherit real estate, so a mother-widow will lose her family's (in reality her late husband's) plot of land and become indigent if she had had only daughters.

Poor rural families have meager resources to distribute among their children, which reduces the opportunity to discriminate against girls.[9]

South Korea has led to a sweeping change in social attitudes and reduced the preference for sons

rapid economic development, combined with policies that seek to promote gender equality

sex ratio transition

The cost of not paying a larger dowry can be even higher.

more common

1,000 male babies born in India, there were just 933 girls.

year 2001

They found that there was an increasing tendency to select boys when previous children had been girls

preceding child was a girl,

ratio of

girls to boy

759 to 1,000.

fell even further when the two preceding children were both girls.

third child born

719 girls to 1,000 boys.

inferior and a liability - a bride's dowry can cripple a poor family financially.

girl child