Appreciate Your Girl Child

In many societies having a male child is some sort of prowess towards ones manhood or sorts. There are many cultures and societies where having a male child is very important to parents. These societies often times have poor treatment of girls and women as well.

In animal husbandry, the word "cull" means to remove undesirable animals from the herd — the scrawny and the sickly. To hear the word applied to human beings is harsh, but that's just how Valerie Hudson, professor in the Department of International Affairs at Texas A&M University, means it when talking about the growing worldwide trend of families — largely in Asia, Southeastern Europe, the Middle East and some parts of Africa — to have sons rather than daughters.

"This is a very troubling turn, that in the 21st century the culling of females is once again becoming more prevalent worldwide," she wrote in an email interview.

Source: NPR Linked here

Girls and women are the most mistreated humans world-wide, if that doesn't tell you something then what should one think of men? When people are showing displeasure to just the thought of birthing and creating girl children, imagine how girls are made to feel?

Girls and women have recently gone to social media to tell stories of how their families or parents have shown regret for having girl children.

There is actually no country where being born a girl isn't considered a horrible situation. In the United States of America, women's rights are being limited. Being a girl means playing sports with limited funding as compared to being active in sports for boys or men. Even the American soccer team was being paid less than their male counter parts.

In some countries girls aren't even allowed to get an education. In many girls being able to legally attend schooling has been introduced in recent years. For example in countries like Kenya girls were unable to attend school.

In 2003, Kenya enacted a law that made primary education free. As a result of this legislation, enrollment rates increased to 84 percent.

This legislation by the government had a positive outcome at large; however, it was found that in some regions where poverty and gender inequality are particularly high, only 19 percent of girls were in school.

Source: The Borgen Project

There a ten countries where it is still difficult for girls to get an education. The majority of these countries are on the African continent. Here you can access a list of these countries.

Source: One Org.

Patterns of Gender Preference

Gender preferences exhibit a variety of patterns. Most common are a preference for sons and a preference for a balance of daughters and sons (often expressed as a desire to have at least one child of each sex). Son preference is particularly strong in a band of countries from North Africa through the Middle East and South Asia to East Asia. The strongest preference for sons has been found in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Egypt, South Korea, and China. The diversity of these countries indicates that son preference does not emerge from a single set of cultural or historical experiences. Even in countries with a strong son preference, many parents want to have one daughter among their children. An overall preference for daughters over sons is rare but has been found to exist to a small extent in a few countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Source: Encyclopedia Dot Com

These preferences about having male children has come back to haunt the Chinese who are now lacking women partners for all the male children. When China implemented the one child rule for families, a lot of girls were given up for adoption. These girls were largely adopted by Americans, leaving China with an uneven match for now adult Chinese men. Men who have over the last few years impregnating Africans on the continent of Africa and abandoning these children.

Gender Inequality is a worldwide issue that needs to be seriously tackled!

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