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UPDATE: LPSO Confirms 3 Missing Girls Have Been Found Safe Here is the latest update from the LPSO: Authorities have reason to believe that the girls may have cut and/or altered the color of their hair to try to evade recognition. Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office Please share this information, as the family is asking for all the help they can get. Kailey Register, Facebook According to a Facebook Post by Kailey Register, 3 teens from the Cankton area are missing. According to the post, the girls exited a Cankton-area home through a window and joined an adult in a waiting vehicle.

The woman who allegedly picked them up in a vehicle is believed to be between 25 and 30 years of age.

Sex ratios in India have been declining for decades, and “missing girls” are a serious social and political problem. Drawing on subdistrict-level data from the 2001 and 2011 Censuses and detailed data on women’s education and fertility, we show that more-educated mothers have fewer girl children than less-educated mothers, but that these girls are also more likely to survive. The policy implication of these findings is that among uneducated mothers, the focus should be on child treatment and survival; among educated mothers, attitudinal campaigns that emphasise the value of having girl...