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The U.S. and the world need to do a great deal more to prevent a gendercide that could well have the sky come crashing down. 

In terms of its sheer toll, prenatal sex selection has assumed a scale tantamount to a global war against baby girls.

From a sociological perspective, an increase in surplus men will have a profound effect on the future of HIV spread in China and on the success or failure of future interventions.

Avraham Ebenstein of Harvard concludes that China's “missing girls” is causally linked to enforcement of the One Child Policy.

Ma Guangzhong, Professor at Peking University and Advisor to the National Population and Family Planning Commission, explains why China needs to relax its One-Child Policy.

In 2005, males under 20 exceeded females by more than 32 million, and more than 1.1 million excess births of boys occurred.

China faces many challenges in the future, but its future success rests on abandoning its destructive "One-Child Policy." The coercive program has been a disastrous mistake.

The suicide rate in China's countryside is three times higher than in big cities, while the suicide rate among women in China is 25 percent higher than the male suicide rate.

China (61) loses one place in the gender gap index and is the second-last ranking country on the health and survival subindex (133), the result of its disproportionate sex ratio.

The looming demographic crisis will largely define China in the twenty-first century. China’s inaction has already proved costly—and will only grow more so the longer it persists.

As China contemplates the future of the one child policy, many argue that a change that allows couples to have two children will not lead to uncontrollable population growth.

As consequences of such a forced demographic transition, China will soon enter a long period of decline in labour supply.

There are about 13 million abortions practiced in China every year, for a total of 18 million births. Almost 10% of the total abortions are motivated by gender selection.

Much of the research of All Girls Allowed has been supplemented by the excellent work of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

The original arguments for China’s strict family-planning laws no longer hold and these outdated restrictions should be relaxed.

The one child policy is still very much in place--nearly 2/3 of all Chinese couples are still required to have only one child. Many of the feared consequences of the policy have now become apparent.