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The World Health Organization states that the ratio of natural sex at birth is approximately 105 boys every hundred girls. For balance, you need some more kids, as men have died sooner. For example, throughout several decades, sex at birth was significantly higher than 105, occasionally topping 120 young people per 100 girls in China, the world’s most populous country. Many sections of India, the second-most populous country, had a sex ratio at birth considerably higher than 105 for decades. As a result, there are currently an estimated 80 million additional men in these merged countries, which have a population of almost 2,73 billion. In India, many families have utilized sex-selective abortion to chose males, leading to the enactment of a law that prohibits sex screening and abortions of the fetus. The ‘one-child policy used between 1979 and 2015, which pushed many parents to determine that their lone child must be an infant, has promoted similar decisions in China. The common thread is gender discrimination—from gardening to practical reasons that children are more likely to support parents financially in their old age and provide grandkids, while girls should live with their in-laws—which is hardly uniquely China and India. It is no surprise that when women are lacking equal rights and patriarchy is well entrenched, parents prefer not to have children. But the effects are there. For example, China presently is seeking a woman—a bride deficit—a gender imbalance that is vast and widening throughout generations. Experts believe that many additional guys will never marry, while others can take tremendous lengths to do so. One such impact in 2019, a report centered on bridal trafficking from Myanmar to China, was examined by Human Rights Watch. Bordering on China, in Myanmar’s Kachin and northern Shan countries, the long-standing conflict has escalated to over 100,000 people in recent years. Vulnerable girls and women are being trafficked and posted in and transported to China. Then they sell the Chinese families fighting to find their sons’ spouses for from $3,000 to $13,000. Upon the purchase, women and girls are usually imprisoned in a room and raped over and over again, in order to get their babies pregnant soon. Some people are able to flee after they have been born, but are compelled to leave their kids. In Cambodia, North Korea, and Vietnam, there are also similar patterns of migration and trafficking of brides, and more may come from other borders with China. Only one result is trafficking. There are many other forms of violence towards women linked to the lack of women. Social insecurity, distortions of the labor market and economic upheavals are other repercussions. The effects of women deficiencies must promptly be mitigated by China, India, and other countries affected. The repercussions of women’s scarcity, including linkages to trafficking and other types of violence against women, should be properly examined. More crucially, the root cause of the demographic imbalance – gender discrimination and hatred for the children it creates – needs to be addressed much more.