Trends in female-selective abortion among Asian diasporas in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

ABSTRACT: Preference for sons and smaller families and, in the case of China, a one-child policy, have contributed to missing girl births in India and China over the last few decades due to sex-selective abortions. Selective abortion occurs also among Indian and Chinese diaspora, but their variability and trends over time are unknown. We examined conditional sex ratio (CSR) of girl births per 1000 boy births among second or third births following earlier daughters or sons in India, China, and their diaspora in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom (UK), and United States (US) drawing upon 18.4 million birth records from census and nationally representative surveys from 1999 to 2019. Among Indian women, the CSR in 2016 for second births following a first daughter favoured boys in India (866), similar to

SUBMITTER: Meh C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9514843 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature