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jeff47

(26,549 posts)
6. There already are some incentives
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 10:07 AM
Oct 2015

The gender balance is "out of whack" enough that poor-ish Chinese families benefit greatly from having a girl, because wealthy Chinese families are having enough trouble finding a wealthy family with a girl. So a girl is a way for a family to "move up" the social ladder.

Still nowhere near enough to fix the imbalance though.

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