I know that Chinese families have a similar situation. One of my college professors adopted a baby from China. She says ALL the babies in the orphanages are girls. There's a lot of sex-selection abortions, a lot of it because of their one-child policy and that it's the boy who takes care of the parents in their old age, and the girl who lives in her husband's family's house and takes care of her in-laws. At least that's what my professor told me.
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Date: 2003-11-14 08:35 am (UTC)I know that Chinese families have a similar situation. One of my college professors adopted a baby from China. She says ALL the babies in the orphanages are girls. There's a lot of sex-selection abortions, a lot of it because of their one-child policy and that it's the boy who takes care of the parents in their old age, and the girl who lives in her husband's family's house and takes care of her in-laws. At least that's what my professor told me.