IN conversation with my friend, Dr. Bernadette Madrid, of the Child Protection Unit of the Philippine General Hospital and many other such units in our public hospitals in the Philippines, she drew my attention to a 2019 Unicef Report on Gender in East and Southeast Asia. The area includes the Philippines, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, etc. Basically, the report brings up gender status in these countries, and it eventually demonstrates the gender inequality that many of the societies in these countries harbor.

This information is well-known and recognized. Some of these countries favor having boys over girls so overwhelmingly that they resort to infanticide or aborting female fetuses before they are born. They have been at it for so long that their populations are lopsided to favor millions more boys than girls. In turn this disparity brings on future social problems where the scarcity of women for marriage causes a competition that can turn into kidnapping women, fighting tribal wars or in a desperate solution, importing women of other countries and other cultures (mostly poor), to fill the gap which may create its own social problems.

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