The Economist has a story this week discussing the dramatic imbalance between the numbers of baby girls and baby boys born in a number of countries, most notably China and northern India, where there are now more than 120 boys born for every 100 girls. According to the piece:
Have a date for the Lunar New Year?
This NYT piece by Dan Levin, ” Wanted: Rental Boyfriend for Lunar New Year,” suggests that one result of the Chinese ”one child” policy has been to increase the pressure that young Chinese men and women feel to have a date to bring home with them when they visit family for the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival.
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