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Article: Attitudes to and practices regarding sex selection in China
Title | Attitudes to and practices regarding sex selection in China |
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Authors | |
Keywords | 'Missing girls' China Sex selection |
Issue Date | 2006 |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/2252 |
Citation | Prenatal Diagnosis, 2006, v. 26 n. 7, p. 610-613 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper explores the problem of China's 'missing' girls-estimated to run into many millions. It considers the impact of the underpinning Confucian value system in China that has produced a culture of son preference and which, together with China's compulsory family planning program and One child policy', has effectively established a One son policy'. Discussion of the various means by which the birth or survival of daughters have traditionally been prevented provides the context for identifying the contribution of new sex selection procedures to the maintenance of son preference in contemporary Chinese society. The paper concludes that China's son preference is not simply a personal problem for the millions of 'missing girls' who were destined to live a shorter life and for the surviving girls who continue to face considerable discrimination simply because they are of the 'wrong' sex; it heralds a social and demographic disaster of major proportions for which neither the government nor the people of China appear to have the will or the means to forestall. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/88099 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.986 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Chan, CLW | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Blyth, E | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, CHY | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-06T09:38:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-09-06T09:38:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Prenatal Diagnosis, 2006, v. 26 n. 7, p. 610-613 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 0197-3851 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/88099 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper explores the problem of China's 'missing' girls-estimated to run into many millions. It considers the impact of the underpinning Confucian value system in China that has produced a culture of son preference and which, together with China's compulsory family planning program and One child policy', has effectively established a One son policy'. Discussion of the various means by which the birth or survival of daughters have traditionally been prevented provides the context for identifying the contribution of new sex selection procedures to the maintenance of son preference in contemporary Chinese society. The paper concludes that China's son preference is not simply a personal problem for the millions of 'missing girls' who were destined to live a shorter life and for the surviving girls who continue to face considerable discrimination simply because they are of the 'wrong' sex; it heralds a social and demographic disaster of major proportions for which neither the government nor the people of China appear to have the will or the means to forestall. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/2252 | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Prenatal Diagnosis | en_HK |
dc.rights | Prenatal Diagnosis. Copyright © John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | en_HK |
dc.subject | 'Missing girls' | en_HK |
dc.subject | China | en_HK |
dc.subject | Sex selection | en_HK |
dc.title | Attitudes to and practices regarding sex selection in China | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=0197-3851&volume=26&issue=7&spage=610&epage=613&date=2006&atitle=Attitudes+to+and+practices+regarding+sex+selection+in+China | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, CLW: cecichan@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, CHY: chancelia@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Chan, CLW=rp00579 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Chan, CHY=rp00498 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/pd.1477 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.pmid | 16856223 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-33746645499 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 123013 | en_HK |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-33746645499&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.volume | 26 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 7 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 610 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 613 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000239531500004 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Chan, CLW=35274549700 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Blyth, E=7003703783 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Chan, CHY=27171015400 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0197-3851 | - |