Steven Pinker Quotes

The Technological Efficiency Of Daughter-proofing A Pregnancy May Make It Seem As If The Girl Shortage Is A Problem Of Modernity, But Female Infanticide Has Been Documented In China And India For More Than Two Thousand Years.119 In China, Midwives Kept A Bucket Of Water At The Bedside To Drown The Baby If It Was A Girl. In India There Were Many Methods: "giving A Pill Of Tobacco And Bhang To Swallow, Drowning In Milk, Smearing The Mother's Breast With Opium Or The Juice Of The Poisonous Datura, Or Covering The Child's Mouth With A Plaster Of Cow-dung Before It Drew Breath." Then And Now, Even When Daughters Are Suffered To Live, They May Not Last Long. Parents Allocate Most Of The Available Food To Their Sons, And As A Chinese Doctor Explains, "if A Boy Gets Sick, The Parents May Send Him To The Hospital At Once, But If A Girl Gets Sick, The Parents May Say To Themselves, 'Well, We'll See How She Is Tomorrow.

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