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The gender imbalance will be raised as the biggest problem in two of the Asia’s biggest Countries, China and India. The current birth rate of male and female child shows that after twenty years China and India will have about 15 percent more men than women.



It sounds horrible but true. The tradition of getting son has disturbed the sex ratio in this region.



Dr. Therese Hesketh of the University College London Institute of Child Health said that, Sex-selective abortion and discrimination in care practices for girls have led to higher female mortality.



The main cause of the rising imbalance is the sex-relative abortion. As a result, it is reported that about 80 million missing females in India and China alone. If this ratio continues, it would lead to more violence in the society.



In future, because of more men and less women, women would marry with the most suitable and least suitable will have no marriage prospects.



Therese Hesketh said, further, that this would lead to more antisocial-behavior and violence, as gender is a well-established correlate of crime, and especially violent crime.



The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published the detail of the report on gender imbalance.



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