- Child sex ratio
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In India, the child sex ratio is the number of females per thousand males in a human population in the age group 0–6 years.[1]. It is equal to the multiplicative inverse of the sex ratio (ratio of males to females in a population) under age seven. Demographic sex pattern in set of children up to 6 years can be used as an indication for future generation.
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Impact of skewed ratio
Impact of skewed sex ratio in which proportion of male children are more than females are already felt in few parts of India.[1]
- Having less women of marriageable age will mean that a significant proportion of men will have to delay their marriage.
- This will effect in delayed marriages and will also affect younger generations of men: when they reach their 20s. The males will not only be in surplus as a result of their generation sex ratio, but they will also face a backlog of older, unmarried men, who will still be in the “marriage market”.
- This bottleneck will not be solved exclusively by delaying marriages, due to the cumulative impact of skewed sex ratio on several generations.
- Finally, a proportion of men will subsequently have to forego marriage altogether. The poorest males will be disproportionately affected by this marriage squeeze, and that many among them may end up remaining single simply for lack of resources to marry. Indeed, they are likely to become the main victims of in the new marriage system, which will probably act as a strong destabilizing factor, and may translate into class-based tensions.[2]
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References
- ^ a b "India's female freefall". staff and wire reports (CNN). June 19, 2001. http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/06/19/india.ultrasound/index.html. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
- ^ "Sex-ratio imbalance in Asia - Trends, consequences and policy responses". United Nation Population Fund. pp. 6. http://www.unfpa.org/gender/docs/studies/summaries/regional_analysis.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
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