Bring on Chinese polyandry...

[statman]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100111...ionmenmarriage

Wow - in some years there were as many as 30% more males born as females...

[wuapinmon]

When I first heard about this imbalance a few years back, I thought, "Well, there's a war in China's future."

[UtahDan]

When I first heard about this imbalance a few years back, I thought, "Well, there's a war in China's future."

My guess is that as wives become a more scarce commodity that the economic incentives for women from even poorer countries (mostly Asian such as Vietnam) to move there will become powerful. I think the result here is just a more diverse China.

[SCcoug]

My guess is that as wives become a more scarce commodity that the economic incentives for women from even poorer countries (mostly Asian such as Vietnam) to move there will become powerful. I think the result here is just a more diverse China.

My understanding is that this is already happening.

[statman]

My understanding is that this is already happening.

And non-chinese are generally not held to the one-child-per-couple rule...

[YOhio]

Valerie Hudson at BYU has been one of the leading researchers in this area.