The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences predicts in the year 2020, China will have as many as 40,000,000 more young men than women under the age of 20.
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That's roughly the equivalent of the entire population of young men in the United States - or twice as many as in the three largest countries in Europe, all facing the prospect of being excluded from a society where having a family is a requirement just to "belong."
In 1978, China addressed its massive overpopulation problem by instituting a "one-child policy," which limited couples to just one offspring.
By addressing its overpopulation problem in this way, as many as 400,000,000 abortions took place. China ended its one child policy in 2015, but serious damage was already done.
In a culture where boys are the preferred sex, it's not surprising that the majority of these abortions were little girls. In some parts of China today, the ratio of boys to girls can be as high as 130-100.
Complicating matters further, forced abortion traumatizes women and by some WHO estimates, as many as 500 Chinese women were committing suicide every day, mostly in the rural provinces.
Today the female suicide rate is lower, but in a society where girls are devalued, it's no surprise that China still has one of the highest female suicide rate in the world.
It's somewhat unfair to speculate about what might happen when little boys become big boys with too much time on their hands, but most of the behavior is obvious and is already taking place.
Source: worldlifeexpectancy/expatlife
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