Sex selection

Girl Shortage Could Cause Rise in Crime

Posted by Billbar from Seed Magazine

In a recent review paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of British and Chinese researchers argue that sex selection in countries like China and India may have already set the stage for national crises by creating a surplus of men and a shortage of women. "Both sociological/criminological literature and historical literature demonstrate the link to increased vice, violence, crime, use of arms, riots, etc. in the presence of substantial numbers of mateless young adult men in society," said an email from Valerie Hudson, a political scientist at Brigham Young University whose work on the effects of increased sex ratios was cited in the new study. "It is hard to see positive consequences for women, in contrast to what economists would have us believe about scarcity inevitably leading to a better situation for women," Therese Hesketh, an author of the paper and researcher in child health at University College London, said. "That has never happened, ever."

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