Preferring Male Babies to Female

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"eugenics-based ideas such as sterilizing certain provinces through the water supply.
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when the supply of women goes down, their value goes up,” says author Hvistendahl. “Like with oil.”
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women may have two husbands and two families in two separate households.
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four intervening decades of millions more men than women,
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men far outnumbered women in the West: Nevada had 320 men for every 100 women; Idaho, 433; Western Kansas, 768. These economies, she writes, served their demographics, with saloons and brothels the most lucrative businesses. Indian tribes would trade or sell their own women. The homicide rate in the West far outstripped the East. Women were assaulted; men were shot for sport. It wasn’t until the 1930s, when the rates of females to males became more equal, that the region really began to stabilize."

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