That’s why the promise of 72 virgins looks so good
03 Jan 2004
Michael Williams notes the male:female ratio in some of Middle Eastern countries. Apparently, baby girls in some Middle Eastern countries are killed sometimes because they aren’t as profitable, and that certainly would lead to a woman shortage at some point.
I’ve heard that the same thing happens in China, as well, but the numbers don’t seem to bear that out.
January 4th, 2004 at 2:43 pm
The problem is that the numbers are simply wrong for infant killing to be the dominant problem in most of these countries. For every one that I found, the jump was largest between the under 15 category and the 15-64 category. That’s not explainable by infant killing. That’s not to say that any of these societies are demographically healthy. They’re not. But promoting a false picture isn’t going to help cure these ills.