More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor. The Global Times said abductions and trafficking of women were "rampant" in areas with excess numbers of men. Illegal marriages and forced prostitution were also problems in those areas, it said.
The report said the study urged the government to relax the so-called "one-child" policy and study the possibility of encouraging "cross-country marriages." It has said the policy has averted 400 million births. AFP
Editor: Interesting use of the word "averted." Makes it sound as though the babies just got shifted over to another time or place instead of having been irrevocably destroyed.
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