World in the Balance

In class today we watched "A world in Balance: The People Paradox" It was about a place in India called Utterpradesh. In Utterpradesh the amount of kids was a lot more than the amount of adults. Women were forced into marriage and having kids. We learned that 95% of their marriages were arranged and that women were forced into marriage at the ages of 15 and 16. The men always wanted boys. If a women did not give birth to a boy, the family, or husband, would be angry with her. 25,000 women are killed a year because they don't have boys. The men are over the women, there is even 35 million more men than women there. Developing countries like this are producing the most babies. India's population will soon surpass China's because of it's birth rate, thus holding the highest population.