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India's uneven sex ratio makes marriageable women a rare commodity; dads benefit.
  • Ultimate irony

    I think perhaps we're missing the ultimate irony here. Here we have an Indian society (like others in the world) which values "sons" so much that it sabotages those very sons by aborting their prospective brides. Hello? What part of this do they not GET? What good is a precious male child if there is no one for him to marry and, ostensibly, produce more male children (who would also have no wives)?