No More Bin Laden

[Jester]

I think it is a gender equality and social security problem. My observation of the culture is that they build their families security by having many boys who, get the best education they can, become successful, then take care of the parents and the other siblings.

But why, then, does this appear to be well-supported in the statistics for Punjab (relatively rich, Northern) and Uttar Pradesh (dirt poor, Northern) but not for Kerala (rich, Southern) or Bihar (poor, Eastern)?

It's not just social security, since that's pretty wretched all over India. It could certainly be culture, but then, what part of culture? The culture of where? Why do we not observe it everywhere in India?

This is one of those topics with a lot of enitrely plausible explanations, but I'm not sure they all survive contact with the empirical enemy.

-Jester