{"id":8692,"date":"2010-01-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/23\/over-24-million-men-face-a-lonely-future\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T12:00:00","slug":"over-24-million-men-face-a-lonely-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/23\/over-24-million-men-face-a-lonely-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 24 Million Men Face a Lonely Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.theage.com.au\/breaking-news-world\/over-24m-chinese-men-face-lonely-future-20100112-m2v9.html\">news.theage.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHINA, January 22, 2010: [HPI note: The trend of sex-specific abortions affects India, too, and could bring similar results to India&#8217;s population.] More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020 due to gender selection abortions by the previous generations.<\/p>\n<p>A study done by the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, named the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem for the country&#8217;s population of 1.3 billion. &#8220;Sex-specific abortions remained extremely commonplace, especially in rural areas,&#8221; where the cultural preference for boys over girls is strongest, the study said while noting the reasons for the gender imbalance were &#8220;complex&#8221;. Researcher Wang Guangzhou said the skewed birth ratio could lead to difficulties for men with lower incomes in finding spouses, as well as a widening age gap between partners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.theage.com.au CHINA, January 22, 2010: [HPI note: The trend of sex-specific abortions affects India, too, and could bring similar,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}