Vatsons, labi aizmirsti par mēdijiem(to pašu var teikt par Krievijas mēdijiem), paņemsim pasaules populārāko un respektētāko MEDICĪNAS žurnālu The Lancet. Tēma par kuru runājām bija Indija/Austrumi un sieviešu vērtība:
"Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011
Prof Prabhat Jha, DPhilcorrespondenceemail, Maya A Kesler, MSc, Prof Rajesh Kumar, MD, Prof Faujdar Ram, PhD, Usha Ram, PhD, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, MSc, Diego G Bassani, PhD, Shailaja Chandra, IAS, Jayant K Banthia, PhD
Summary
Background
India's 2011 census revealed a growing imbalance between the numbers of girls and boys aged 0–6 years, which we postulate is due to increased prenatal sex determination with subsequent selective abortion of female fetuses. We aimed to establish the trends in sex ratio by birth order from 1990 to 2005 with three nationally representative surveys and to quantify the totals of selective abortions of girls with census cohort data.
Methods
We assessed sex ratios by birth order in 0·25 million births in three rounds of the nationally representative National Family Health Survey covering the period from 1990 to 2005. We estimated totals of selective abortion of girls by assessing the birth cohorts of children aged 0–6 years in the 1991, 2001, and 2011 censuses. Our main statistic was the conditional sex ratio of second-order births after a firstborn girl and we used 3-year rolling weighted averages to test for trends, with differences between trends compared by linear regression.
Findings
The conditional sex ratio for second-order births when the firstborn was a girl fell from 906 per 1000 boys (99% CI 798–1013) in 1990 to 836 (733–939) in 2005; an annual decline of 0·52% (p for trend=0·002). Declines were much greater in mothers with 10 or more years of education than in mothers with no education, and in wealthier households compared with poorer households. By contrast, we did not detect any significant declines in the sex ratio for second-order births if the firstborn was a boy, or for firstborns. Between the 2001 and 2011 censuses, more than twice the number of Indian districts (local administrative areas) showed declines in the child sex ratio as districts with no change or increases. After adjusting for excess mortality rates in girls, our estimates of number of selective abortions of girls rose from 0–2·0 million in the 1980s, to 1·2–4·1 million in the 1990s, and to 3·1–6·0 million in the 2000s. Each 1% decline in child sex ratio at ages 0–6 years implied 1·2–3·6 million more selective abortions of girls. Selective abortions of girls totalled about 4·2–12·1 million from 1980–2010, with a greater rate of increase in the 1990s than in the 2000s.
Interpretation
Selective abortion of girls, especially for pregnancies after a firstborn girl, has increased substantially in India. Most of India's population now live in states where selective abortion of girls is common."
Šis ir tikai summary, var palasīt sīkāk. Nav kautkāds izdomājums, bet gan daudzu zīnatnieku (PhD) veikts pētijums, vari pati pārliecināties paskatoties Indijas statistiku. Sieviešu "vērtība" ir tajās valstīs balstīta uz to, ka viņu paliek aizvien mazāk, jo vienkārši vecāki negrib sev meitas, un tas nav tikai pie nabadzīgajiem vecākiem, kuri nevar atļauties noteikt dzimumu, bet gan arī pie bagātākajiem vecākiem. Šī ir nopietna problēma tajās valstīs un daļēji tieši viņu kultūra, vismaz pie nabadzīgākajiem vecākiem, ir pie tā vainīga, saistībā ar to saucamo "dowry", kur meitas vecākiem ir jādod vīram un viņa ģimenei dāvanas/nauda par meitas precēšanu.
Savukārt Ķīnā ir 1 bērna politika, tapēc, kā jau Azijas kultūrām ir raksturīgi, daudzi izvēlas zēnu par savu vienīgo bērnu.
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