MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Mara Hvistendahl made waves in 2011 with Unnatural Selection, her book profiling the global rise of sex-selective abortions. But two new studies highlighted by The Economist say the problem is poised to get worse.
The studies look at the Caucasus, where the popularity of sex-selection rivals Asia’s high rates of male preference. The natural ratio of men to women is 105 men born for every 100 females. But in places like Georgia, the ratio is 120 to 100, and in Armenia, if the first child is a female, 61 percent of second children are sons. The scariest thing uncovered by the studies is that there could be more to come