Chinese government policies have contributed to an acute shortage of girls in the communist country. Chinese researchers say there are 41 million more males than females among China's huge 1.2 billion population.
According to The Washington Post, sex-selective abortions, infanticide, and significant differences in access to health care are contributing to an increasingly skewed sex ratio in China. In rural areas, boys are prized because of their value for farm work. And China's strict family planning policies have brought about sex-selective abortions, made easier because of readily available ultra-sound machines.
Researchers predict the social consequences of this imbalance could be disastrous. Already Chinese police researchers say crime has grown among the millions of men of marrying age who cannot find a bride — and that, they say, has led to a kidnapping trade of Vietnamese and North Korean women.
In addition, many girls who are born in China wind up being given away and often adopted. In the past decade, Americans have adopted more than 30,000 Chinese babies — almost all of them girls.
Georgia Convenience Stores Remove Porn After Protests
by Allie Martin
(AgapePress) – More than 200 convenience stores in southern Georgia are taking pornographic magazines off the shelves after one Christian activist decided to get involved.
Ryker Carter says he got tired of seeing adult magazines in “Friendly Express” stores throughout southern Georgia. So he wrote a letter to company officials, threatening a boycott from the local American Family Association if the magazines were not removed.
Company officials removed the magazines after Carter sent a second letter. He says families in southern Georgia are the big winners.
“It means that maybe it’ll save a child or a marriage. It’s really a super thing,“ he says. “We’re excited about it.”
“How I got started was, the AFA organization wanting to make a difference in our community, because I’ve seen all the harm and how it [pornography] effects marriages and children,” Carter says. “It was basically one person that had these magazines removed out of the stores.”
Carter is president of the AFA of Southern Georgia.
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)
