Hainan's Missing Baby?

China's 1-child policy (as opposed to Indonesia's/Malaysia's 10; ha ha) is infamous.

What's notorious is that when humans are refused the right of reproduction, they start selective breeding making China probably the only place in the world where humans are subjected to it.

Yes, I'm refering to gender-selection; the baisedness to have sons rather than daughters.

" To carry on the blood line.""To have some one, not marrying off to another family, and will therefore be able to take care of the aged parents" or "So that the neighbours don't laugh" etc.

The obvious social stigma of not having a son is tremendously painful. And hence the actions of desperate parents, palpable.

Secret births, secret abortions, secret adoptions (some one sells because someone buys, get it?) , , lost childhoods (distance rearing) etc.

Imagine a 5 : 1 boy-to-girl ratio.

Imagine grown men not having wives-to-be because all the few potential ladies out there have gone to the cities to find work.

The situation is bad. Especially on Hainan Island.

But wait a second.

It's not all deliberate human-choices aggrevating the gender problem here, me thinks.

The Hainanese really do have a propensity for giving birth to boys.

I'm a modern city-dwelling Hainanese who's neve been to China (aka a Straits Chinese) and ALL my uncles and aunts.... have kids.... and all my cousins, stack up to a ratio of 5:1, male-to-female.

The family make-up are:
either 1 male child and 1 female child . 2 male children and 1 female child or ALL male children.

Indeed, even of my uncles and aunts, its 12 brothers and 2 sisters.

Yeah. Ponder. :-)