Summary
China’s marriage rate hit a record low in 2024, with only 6.1 million marriages, a 20% drop from 2023 and the lowest since records began in 1986.
Rising costs, youth unemployment, changing gender roles, and a growing preference for single life contribute to the trend. Government incentives to boost marriage and birth rates have largely failed.
Social attitudes are shifting, with less family pressure to marry, skepticism over restrictive divorce laws, and calls for same-sex marriage recognition.
Experts warn this decline could accelerate China’s demographic and economic challenges.
It’s wrong, but I don’t see it as a big deal either. If someone is escaping an abusive marriage, and can escape, being legally married carries no weight. And that’s the worst case scenario.
Ex and I split amicably (mostly), went our separate ways. We were married for a couple of years afterwards because we were too lazy to pull the trigger.
Are there situations where waiting 4-months hurts someone?
Other than the fact that an abuser can just hold all your property hostage for 4 months and leave you with either A) no legal claim to your belongings or B) no choice but to return to your abuser?
Why should be not be as easy to exit a contract as it is to enter one?
How does being married or not change that? Say I beat my wife and she runs away. She can get a police escort to get some of her things. I’ve been on the escorted end of that scenario. (Obviously they won’t wait for a moving service.)
So you’re saying the law considers everything in a home the property of the person remaining, if they’re married? You should meet some people going through a divorce. It ain’t like that.
Of course it should be easy to divorce. My first two words: “It’s wrong…”
Being legally married carries weight.
I have no idea how you think it doesn’t.
Your amblicable split is not an example of how the process of a divorce with an abusive partner. It’s the furtherest it can get.
Absolutely dumbfounded here.
If this wasn’t trolling or sarcasm, you are not a clearly not wise person. I’m sorry if I’m the first to let you know.
Your post would be more valuable if you did not directly insult them at the end. Im not sure why you made that choice.
All that and you can’t provide a single example of consequences? That’s literally all I asked for.
The point of my anecdote was that nothing changed in our lives despite remaining married.