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Yes, this is why it is illegal to determine the sex of the child before birth in India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_sex_discernment#India https://en.

• spangry 11y ago
  I honestly wonder if this does more harm than good. By which I mean it leads to more of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Effect_on_infanticide_rates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Effect_on_inf... and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_India#Contemporary_data_and_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_India#Co... "The 'one-child' policy has also led to what Amartya Sen first called 'Missing Women', or the 100 million girls 'missing' from the populations of China (and other developing countries) as a result of female infanticide, abandonment, and neglect".