And the more I try to hurt you, the more it hurts me

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Mao Zedong said “women hold up half the sky.”  Yet gendercide exists on almost every continent. It affects rich and poor; educated and illiterate; Hindu, Muslim, Confucian and Christian alike. Wealth does not stop it. Taiwan and Singapore have open, rich economies. Within China and India, the areas with the worst sex ratios are the richest, best-educated ones.

China alone stands to have as many unmarried young men—“bare branches”, as they are known—as the entire population of young men in America.In any country rootless young males spell trouble; in Asian societies, where marriage and children are the recognized routes into society, single men are almost like outlaws. Crime rates, bride trafficking, sexual violence, even female suicide rates are all rising and will rise further as the lopsided generations reach their maturity.

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