" From a social point of view, in an (at present) grossly overpopulated country like India suffering from an (at present) grossly excessive rate of population growth, female-selective abortion is by far and away the most practical way by which the people, on their own, can deal with that problem (given the fertility rate, the rate of population growth is a linear function of the reproductive-age sex ratio).
Male homosexuality, socially considered, is the proper response to the excess of reproductive-age males in any primate society where population limitation imposes a surplus of males or where younger males remain in the social group but cannot compete with the stronger adult males for the available females."
Well, uh, no.
The most practical way for the people to deal with the problem is contraception.
And, besides, they don't kill female children to hold down population. They kill female foetuses/children because women are a drain on family finances because of dowaries and because once the female is grown and married she is only a financial asset to her husband's family.
Ravi can correct me if I'm wrong.
Joanna
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