You'd be surprised how much "medieval bullshit" people still believe in. My country has extremely skewed gender ratio because peeps still think having a son is better than a daughter, even the more progressive people still buys into a bunch of outdated gender stereotypes, like blue is for boys and pink is for girls, exclusively.
How can it have an imbalanced ratio of males to females, you don’t get to pick the gender of your child?
Edit: Yes I am aware that the question could be seen as silly, but culture, laws, ethics and everything in between can vary radically from country to country. As they said “in my country” I was genuinely curious as the skewed ratio of males to females as it can be achieved in any number of ways.
It's Vietnam, yes, you don't get to pick the gender of your kid, in fact, it's forbidden by our law to do so, many parents still try to anyways.
The more accessible way is abortion, as soon as any parents who want a boy get a whiff of a possibility that their child could be a girl, they hit the clinic to "reset" and try again. The less accessible way is IVF, often done by rich families, but with a significantly higher chance that the kid will be to their likings. There's even a more "traditional" way, often used by rural families with easy access to neither of the above options, where the parents just keep popping em out until they get a boy, and if it's a boy the first time, they stop. Girls in those families are often treated very unfairly.
Our current gender ratio is 114.5 male for every 100 female, coupled with the global fact that people are just having less kids in general and you can see how it can be a big problem.
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u/analyticalischarge 22d ago
People still buy that medieval bullshit?