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China's birth limits create dangerous gender gap

April 10, 2009
Alexa Olesen, Associated Press

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.

The imbalance is expected to steadily worsen among people of childbearing age over the next two decades and could trigger a slew of social problems, including a possible spike in crime by young men unable to find female partners, said an author of the report published in the BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal.

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