After years of aborting female fetuses, a practice that is still on the rise in some areas because of a cultural preference for male children, India has about 15 million “extra” men between the ages of 15 and 35, the range when men are most likely to commit crimes. By 2020, those “extra” men will have doubled to 30 million.
Heather Timmons and Sruthi Gottipati, “Indian Women March: ‘That Girl Could Have Been Any One of Us’”