Doc links male child preference to gender imbalance in Iran’s population 

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
the producer of the film, announced in a press release.Studies show that the ratio of male to female births is 109:100 in the province
Moradi said that these research findings can be generalized to other provinces, and the imbalance will cause serious problems in the
country.Preference for male children is an ongoing practice in Ardebil as Moradi has witnessed some women among her relatives have decided
to have an abortion after they learned that their children are female following a gender test.According to her research, women seeking
abortions are categorized into two groups, one of which is made up of women with higher education who marry late in life
They do not have sufficient child-bearing years remaining to let them think about having more than one child
Therefore, they seek male children in their sole opportunity for having a child.The second group is made up of women living in lower-class
families
Due to their gender, they are deprived of any basic human rights
They do not want to give birth to female children who may experience similar deprivations in the future.Moradi had hired a pregnant woman to
appear in her documentary for paying the cost of her hospitalization and other necessities for the supervision of a normal
pregnancy.Following strong opposition from her husband, the woman withdrew from the project three months after working for the
Her husband wanted the abortion to be done without any intervention from others
of Najibeh Abbaspur, Zahra Morovvati and Soghra Babazadeh, delving into the lives of these women who live in a village in Ardebil that has