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40,000 YOUNG MEN IN ARMENIA WILL NOT FIND GIRLFRIENDS - SPECIALIST
October 01, 2013 | 13:35
YEREVAN. - Forty-thousand young men in Armenia will not be able to
find girlfriends.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Armenia Executive Director Garik
Hayrapetyan stated the above-said during a press conference on Tuesday.
In his words, the cause for this phenomenon is the gradually increasing
number of abortions based on the gender of the fetus.
"If you go to the schools now, you will see that the boys are 15 to
20 percent more than the girls in any elementary and intermediate
classroom [in Armenia]," Hayrapetyan stressed.
He added that this problem exists in the entire Caucasus, where
parents first prefer to have boys.
Selective abortions were not performed in the Soviet times, since
there was no ultrasound in the ex-USSR.
"Hence, it was impossible to determine the sex of the child before
birth," Garik Hayrapetyan added.
News from Armenia - NEWS.am
From: A. Papazian
October 01, 2013 | 13:35
YEREVAN. - Forty-thousand young men in Armenia will not be able to
find girlfriends.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Armenia Executive Director Garik
Hayrapetyan stated the above-said during a press conference on Tuesday.
In his words, the cause for this phenomenon is the gradually increasing
number of abortions based on the gender of the fetus.
"If you go to the schools now, you will see that the boys are 15 to
20 percent more than the girls in any elementary and intermediate
classroom [in Armenia]," Hayrapetyan stressed.
He added that this problem exists in the entire Caucasus, where
parents first prefer to have boys.
Selective abortions were not performed in the Soviet times, since
there was no ultrasound in the ex-USSR.
"Hence, it was impossible to determine the sex of the child before
birth," Garik Hayrapetyan added.
News from Armenia - NEWS.am
From: A. Papazian