And....Science FIction catches up to us:

[alfreda89]

http://health.msn.com/pregnancykids/greenarticlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100171768>1=10547

Are boys becoming an endangered species? Check out this article and see for yourself.

Comments

Yes --

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Like the panic that we forecast 25-30 years ago, when the Chinese told the population they could have only one child. Well -- most of them were rural, so they chose what could support them best in their old age -- a son. They aborted the girls.

And now, the Chinese are stealing brides from the Mongols and even more rural locations. And the Arabs and other Middleastern groups are running out of women, too, since the minute they could predict sex they aborted the girls.

Lack of men means two things -- the population will grow browner in skin tone (yes, America is growing browner, and there's little those who care can do about it, except stop terrorizing potential European immigrants at the border) and a narrowing of diversity in Western nations.

Will they go to more women to each man? Well, that's an interesting question. We'll see how desperate they are in ten years. Of course, there are people like that couple in Arkansas who have sixteen or so. Clearly, pollution and fertility doesn't concern them.