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Divorce rise, reforms linked
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-06-24 09:29
A poster of the TV series Divorce, Chinese-Style. It ran nightly for 23
episodes last year and was extremely popular. It is adapted from a novel
of the same name by Chinese famous woman writer Wang Hailing. The author
depicts the joys and sorrows, partings and reunions within Chinese family
life. The huge success of the series reflects the growing importance of
divorce as a social phenomenon in China during social and economic
reforms. In the past years, more than 1.5 million Chinese couples
divorced annually. [baidu.com]
One side effect of China's reforms and more mobile society is a rising
divorce rate, a government report said.
A report issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs said the divorce rate
has been on the rise since 2002. A total of 1.785 million couples
divorced in 2005, 120,000 more than the previous year, leading to a
divorce rate of 2.73 per thousand.
Chen Rongzhi, a scholar with the Overseas Chinese University in south
China's Fujian Province, attributed the rise to the itinerant population.
"A great floating population occurs as people in rural areas move to
cities and between cities for higher incomes, leading to more diversity
among marriage partners," said Chen. "A family member's migration creates
greater chances to disrupt the stability of a family and a marriage," she
said.
"China's traditional ideas are giving way to new ones, such as Internet
dating, onenight stands, or quick marriages," said a report by Tang Can,
a scholar with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Tang described these new phenomena as the young generation's pursuit of
"sensuous satisfaction" so they treated marriage less seriously than
their parents, which tended to drive up the divorce rate.
However, the rising divorce rate reflected a positive side too, Chen
said, as the freedom to marry or divorce showed a more tolerant social
atmosphere and respect for individuals.
Families have undergone great changes in the last two decades. An aging
society put much pressure on families to take elderly relatives under the
present social security system, and the one-child policy altered the
traditional multi-children family structure, said Chen.
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