Today’s interesting fact has to do with the practice of sex selective abortions.

In China and India, they have been selecting to have male children instead of female children for a number of years.

This can be done with an easy screening of the foetus by extracting cells floating in the water of the womb, an amniocentesis, and verifying the sex of the child by looking at the sex chromosomes.

This is because within even a small amount of amniotic fluid there will be foetal tissue.

This originally was used to test for chromosomal abnormalities and foetal infections, but has been turned to making sure you have the sex of the child that some desire.

In China, the sex of your child is considered important, as male children look after their parents as they age, and female children when they marry move to their husband home, where they look after the parents.

Because of the one child policy, where urban couples are allowed to only have one child, many of these urban couples are selecting to only have male children.

There are exceptions to the policy, which are rural couples, ethnic minorities and parents without any siblings.

Unfortunately this sexual selection in China now means that under the age of 20, there are 32 million more boys than girls in the Chinese population.

Where these young men are going to find wives is anyone’s guess.

This subject has been covered in a number of future fictions, where many of the books have suggested other countries would be invaded to provide these women.