> doctors are bribed to break laws about giving information about the sex of an unborn child I have written on HN several times about corruption in India, but

> doctors are bribed to break laws about giving information about the sex of an unborn child I have written on HN several times about corruption in India, but this is one of the kinds of corruption I have never seen. I have several friends who have children, and come from families who would never abort a fetus based on its sex. But still, their family doctors, who have known them all their lives would not divulge this bit of information. The article that you linked to reports instances, and I believe the personal stories to be true. However, when I reconcile my own experience with the stories in the article, I must conclude that it happens very rarely. So rarely that it cannot account for the large trends in the sex ratios. Getting a doctor to perform the abortion is easy though. > They tried persuassion and it didn't work. Indians are already getting choked with well-meaning but counterproductive laws. IMO, adding more laws wont help. They haven't tried general education. Among the poorer sectors of society, education seems to be as bad as it ever was. Don't go by India's published literacy figures; they are meaningless [1]. [1] http://gbytes.gsood.com/2006/07/03/literacy-in-india-can-india-spell-success/ http://gbytes.gsood.com/2006/07/03/literacy-in-india-can-ind...