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Some shocking Korean statistics.
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dogbert



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Again, my issue is not with what you highlighted in red -- I disagree with your assertion that gender-selection abortions occur only after a married couple has had one or two female children. I maintain that a certain percentage of gender-selection abortions occur in a couple's first pregnancy, when it is revealed that the foetus is female.
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pyongshin Sangja wrote:
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Most abortions here are not because of gender selection. They are from couples who are unmarried and got pregnant because Koreans don't use condoms. A few of my friends have gotten women pregnant and paid for abortions. None were for gender selection. Those would only be after the married couple has one or two girls.


That is ridiculous.

Very very very few Korean families have three children.

Even fewer have no sons. Many families only have one child, this is almost always a son.


And if they have several daughters and one son, the son is often the youngest child.
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rapier



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like most gender selections don't affect the firstborn: excellent link comparing child sex ratios of S.Korea, Singapore and China.
Source: Population planning unit, Ministry of Health.(Singapore).

"(S.Korea)-A look at the sex ratio by birth parities reveals that the ratio is normal for the first born, but abnormally high for third, fourth and higher order births: higher even than that for China".

http://www.singstat.gov.sg/ssn/feat/1Q95/feat.html
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