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Doctors’ families in India are having more sons than daughters, reports a new study in the American journal Demography, implying that they too may be engaging in illegal son-preference practices including sex-selective abortions, a practice that is thought to be widespread in India.
Female feticide, among not only the poorer and uneducated families but also India’s burgeoning urban middle classes, has contributed to the nation’s skewed sex ratio. In the past decade, the female sex ratio, among children under the age of 6, fell from 927 to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys.
In 1996, India banned the use of ultrasound machines for determining the sex of the unborn child, unless medical emergency requires it. The government has, in the past, arrested many doctors and laboratory owners who continue to use it clandestinely for their patients.
But now it appears that the doctors may be accessing the technology for their own families to arrest the birth of girls.
The journal essay, titled “Skewed Sex Ratios in India: Physicians, Heal Thyself,” says “the heavily skewed sex ratios...
Female feticide, among not only the poorer and uneducated families but also India’s burgeoning urban middle classes, has contributed to the nation’s skewed sex ratio. In the past decade, the female sex ratio, among children under the age of 6, fell from 927 to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys.
In 1996, India banned the use of ultrasound machines for determining the sex of the unborn child, unless medical emergency requires it. The government has, in the past, arrested many doctors and laboratory owners who continue to use it clandestinely for their patients.
But now it appears that the doctors may be accessing the technology for their own families to arrest the birth of girls.
The journal essay, titled “Skewed Sex Ratios in India: Physicians, Heal Thyself,” says “the heavily skewed sex ratios...