What's interesting about what China and India both did. Wasn't just China. And they did it for the same reasons -- pushing male births over female births...is that it has back-fired on them in a huge way.

For one thing? They now have too many young guys, and the male/female ratio is unequal. Also not enough jobs for those young guys, so running into a weird amount of violence and aggression. And two, and possibly more importantly, their population is well...they won't have a sizable population for future generations.

Go here: China's looming crisis: a shrinking population



Chinese academics recently delivered a stark warning to the country’s leaders: China is facing its most precipitous decline in population in decades, setting the stage for potential demographic, economic and even political crises in the near future.

For years China’s ruling Communist Party implemented a series of policies intended to slow the growth of the world’s most populous nation, including limiting the number of children couples could have to one. The long term effects of those policies mean the country will soon enter an era of “negative growth,” or a contraction in the size of the total population.

The difficulty? They don't have enough women.