Each girl-child is cherished, every boy-baby expendable, the old land’s prejudices reversed – yet is this more fair? “The girl problem” – created by cultures valuing male heirs so much that girl babies are discarded, leaving a vast imbalance of men to women when that generation wants to marry – is turned on its head … Continue reading 5 to 1, by Holly Bodger (book review) – girls valued, men as chattel