Valerie Hudson
Valerie Hudson
Valerie M. Hudsonis an American professor of political science at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University as of January 2012. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, Hudson was a professor of political science at Brigham Young University for 24 years. She is most noted for having co-authored the book Bare Branches about the negative effects of China's overabundance of males...
bride hit large shortage
In world history, there has never been a bride shortage as large as is about to hit China.
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They were being sold to families in the countryside, who were worried about not finding wives for their sons. So, they would buy them as infants and raise them in the family to become the bride of their son.