^Showalter, Elaine (July 1, 2011). "Mara Hvistendahl's 'Unnatural Selection,' about a world with too many men". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 September 2014. Is Hvsitendahl a whistleblower, warning us of a terrible disaster we must take action to avert — and if so, what kind of action would that be? Or is she a Cassandra, describing an unavoidable destiny for humankind that we cannot prevent? In either case, she has written a disturbing, engrossing book that we can add to the tottering shelf of problems that keep us up at night.
^Kurlantzick, Joshua (June 13, 2011). "Unnatural Selection". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 September 2014. Some developing nations have begun to recognise the need for action. With recent surveys showing its ratios worsening, India has created a new body to monitor hospitals. China has also gingerly begun to discuss relaxing its one child policy. But even if wiser policies follow it will take a generation for these unbalanced nations to get their populations back in balance. And in that time, those millions of angry, unmarriageable men could cause plenty of havoc.
^Last, Jonathan V. (June 24, 2011). "The War Against Girls". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 September 2014. Mara Hvistendahl is worried about girls. Not in any political, moral or cultural sense but as an existential matter. She is right to be. In China, India and numerous other countries (both developing and developed), there are many more men than women, the result of systematic campaigns against baby girls.
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