Alarm Bells: Girls and Chinese Communities

alarm bells: Studies from 2016 found the same pattern, estimating that almost 4,500 Indo-Canadian girls had gone missing owing to sex-selective abortions during the past two decades, according to Globe and Mail. The alarm bells were first sounded in a 2012 study that found a third baby born after two girls was twice as likely to be male than female in Sikh, Hindu and primarily non-religious Chinese communities. Preferential attitudes toward boys persist, no matter how long women from India have lived in Canada. Negative views of women and girls lie at the heart of both practices. Sometimes, the vaginal opening is also sewn almost closed. FGM is a cruel procedure, in which some or all of external female genitalia is cut off. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.