Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Lucky Ones

China's one-child policy has resulted in sex-selected abortions that has skewed births toward boys. The result, naturally enough, will be an excess of male adults who won't have spouses (well, not male ones anyway):

More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor.

The study, by the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, named the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem for the country's population of 1.3 billion, the Global Times said.

This cohort of men is being called Generation Lu Kie.

Ouch. Is my baggage showing?