Wanted! 250 Million Wives: Asia’s Shocking Gender Imbalance

Michael Backman

Chapter 12 in Asia Future Shock, 2008, pp 82-88 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Why do parents in Asia prefer sons? The reasons are many: sons carry on the family name, they inherit property in most of Asia’s cultures, they are a means of income support in old age, and in India the high cost of providing a dowry means that daughters can represent a huge financial cost for little return. Also in India, Hindu custom dictates that it is the sons who must perform the cremation rights. No sons and the rites are incomplete. In China, Korea, and even Japan, not having sons to carry on the family name is to dishonor the ancestors.

Keywords: Unborn Child; Gender Imbalance; Surplus Male; International Herald Tribune; Dowry Payment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230592421_12

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