2009/8/23 lukhman_khan <[email protected]>

>
> > the protagonists in the movie salam namaste were, etc.... While
> > Draupadi came to mind during the discussion, here, it was certainly
> > strange to hear women participants on the show, already in a live-in
> > relationship (hence strong individuals un-fettered by society's
> > definition of morality) question his relationship on moral grounds.
> > The irony confounds me!!
>
> If female feoticide/foeticide goes on, the way it had been a few years back
> (probably even now), one wife two three husbands will have to become a
> reality. And whats wrong with that?
>
> Nahin?


Such drastic measures are hardly necessary. Perhaps this map [1] might give
you a better picture.

Obviously Fisher's principle [2] doesn't hold when the parental expenditure
is more for a particular sex.

Kiran

[1] http://www.mapsofindia.com/census2001/sexratio/sexratio-india.htm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio#Fisher.27s_principle

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