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Single men in Korea outnumber single women by 19.6 percent: Report (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The increase of male births can be linked to a historical preference for sons, a decline in birth rates driven by gender selection preferences and advancements in technology, such as ultrasound, that facilitate gender selection, according to the report. The report also emphasized that the prolonged period of a skewed sex ratio at birth since the 1970s has had a significant impact on marriage rates. Regions with high marriage rate imbalances are characterized by particularly skewed sex ratios at birth during the 1980s and 1990s.

So basically a lot of people saw a vagina in the ultrasound and decided quit and restart the level.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago

It's now even before that

I know of two couples that went to get IVF in China/Korea. Both got to choose the gender of the baby - aka they just test and insert the one that ticks the box.

Both couples chose boys.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that what people said about China?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's happening in China, South Korea, Vietnam. Probably you can find more examples.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

India as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

How strange

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This isn’t the only country that’s an example of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Fair enough

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

and now they've fucked over their preferred sons because in doing so they left them maidenless.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why is there a preference for sons? Is it because they would traditionally get better jobs and take care of their parents or…?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Carry on the name?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I know That's a fairly common experience elsewhere. I have a cousin who is a fourth of his name. I think he or his wife understood the twisted family dynamic that came with playing favorites like that because they didn't carry on the tradition when they had their son.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I was told in Asian society the women marries into the males family and basically forsakes her original one. So patents need males to take care of them when they are okd. I dk if it's BS.