China's birth limits create dangerous gender gap

Saturday, April 11, 2009

BEIJING -- China has 32 million more young men than young women -- a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime -- because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released Friday said.

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