JONATHAN LAST: Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons. Creating a woman-shortage for the sons who are born, which is no favor.
UPDATE: Reader Anne Butzen writes: “Nobody wants a daughter, everyone wants a daughter-in-law. You’d think that people as smart as the Chinese and the Indians are supposed to be, would have figured out that you can’t have one without the other.”