The statistical analysis and figures are beyond frightening. The article highlights the crisis in China, India, Bangladesh, Iran and Pakistan – from none other than the United Nations Development Program.
100 million baby girls are missing in Asia in this generation! And that's the conservative figure! By 2020 in China alone there will be 25 million men of marrying age without a partner. The problem is the traditional preference for baby boys. In 2020 there will be 40 million more little boys than little girls running around.
Moreover, in the new middle class in Asia the article details the cheap portable ultrasound devices which are having deadly consequences than the brutal rituals of tradition. Governments in both China and India have tried in vain to outlaw the practise of sex-selective abortion, and China's one child policy has exacerbated the problem.
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Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister and cricket chaplain says that the haunting question that remains, is almost beyond belief.
Another crisis is upon us, Mark Tronson noted, it's not something to deal with in twenty five years, it's an issue that is here and now, in the present.
In some parts of China two brothers share one wife. Two recent television documentaries / current affair programs illustrated another option, none to happy one, mind you, where rural young women are being kidnapped for enslaved prostitution in the cities.
A figure 100,000,000 men without marriageable partners in a generation is not out of the question. This is a calamity waiting to happen in anyone's language. Moreover it's only going to get a whole lot worse, unless baby girls become of such enormous value in monetary terms that the pendulum swings.
Historically, the current situation raises a frightening outcome, where such an imbalance produces military endeavours. In conquered nations the men were dispatched, while their women (forcibly) transhipped into new arranged households.
What therefore are some immediate stop gap solutions - as it will take two or three generations of constant Government fortitude to see natural change, 50-75 years at the earliest. Mark Tronson suggests two and telegraphs a third idea for discussion.
First, those nations with this social and cultural calamity need to relent on their hard lines policies against Christian thinking. Christianity crosses all boundaries and its teaching on women's equality must be heard, recognised and adopted. This is a huge challenge. Moreover, Christian and Western in these cultures are confused. They are not one and the same. Missionaries must be allowed to function freely and teach values that will sustain the boy-girl survivable birthrate.
Second, Western young women who are not opposed to Asian husbands should be welcomed by those countries and 'meeting agencies' established where these Western girls can meet Asian young men 'face to face' in safe and secure environments. The Internet does not fall into this category. Significant incentives need to be offered in well planned Government programs such as up-market housing and security protection.
Third, finding (a very conservative figure) of 25 million women of marriage age is no easy call. Sexual appetites of such large numbers of men cannot be ignored and male prostitution is an increasing reality in those countries. Nonetheless, hiding one's head in the sand solves nothing. It's even been suggested that Western male homosexuals might make a serious contribution to such appetites.
There are no easy answers, says Mark Tronson.
Mark Tronson said he included the suggestion he'd heard in point three in the light of a story he heard in the height of the Cold War, about a US Baptist preacher whose sermon time was constantly interrupted by USAF jets flying over the church from the nearby air base. He rang the CO to complain, whose responded tactfully by saying: "Do you want our's or their's".
The question therefore is, what workable outcomes can the West put in place to prevent a war over our women? 100,000,000 (million) men within a generation, without a woman partner, on our door step, carries with it, a whole lot of pondering.... and the need for missionaries to turn an Asian generation to Christ, as missionaries were engaged after WWII in Japan.