> Patrilocality and son preference have nothing to do with abuse of women. Women that move to live in the husbands extended family have no existing relationshi

> Patrilocality and son preference have nothing to do with abuse of women. Women that move to live in the husbands extended family have no existing relationships, no blood relations around them. They are outsiders and so are very vulnerable. Son preference indicates that females are not valued, which as the article points out is correlated with poor treatment of women. Of course aborting pregnancies of females is bad, it’s utterly stunning that you can think joking about it is ok. As the article points out an imbalance in the population means there won’t be enough girls to go around. This correlates with high rates of violence and crime due to all those frustrated men.