{"id":75530,"date":"2021-06-05T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T01:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=75530"},"modified":"2021-06-05T21:15:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T01:15:19","slug":"china-institutes-cooling-off-period-for-divorces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/china-institutes-cooling-off-period-for-divorces","title":{"rendered":"China Institutes &#8220;Cooling Off&#8221; Period for Divorces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Divorces are down\u2014way down\u2014in China so far this year, after the country instituted a new 30-day waiting period for divorces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/19\/china\/divorce-cool-off-intl-hnk\/index.html\">CNN reports<\/a>, \u201cAccording to statistics released by the country&#8217;s Ministry of Civil Affairs, 296,000 divorces were registered in the first quarter of 2021, compared to 1.06 million in the final quarter of last year\u2014a drop of 72%. There was a nearly 52% drop year-on-year, from 612,000 in the first quarter of 2020.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China is infamously struggling with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ywang\/2017\/10\/17\/no-one-in-china-wants-to-get-married-anymore-and-its-making-beijing-nervous\/?sh=6b926cd8aa0b\">fast-falling fertility rate<\/a>, one which some speculate will mean a five-percentage point shrinking of its labor force over the next few decades. In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/12\/business\/china-census-demographics-meituan-intl-hnk\/index.html\">13.5% of its population<\/a> is now 65 and above; this percentage compares with what Japan faced in the early 1990s, before that country began a three-decades long economic stagnation. In short, the demographic time bomb in China is serious, and the government has felt the pressure and started to get involved. Provinces have begun experimenting both with <a href=\"https:\/\/supchina.com\/2018\/01\/30\/china-is-promoting-marriage-by-giving-newlyweds-cash\/\">cash payments<\/a> to newlyweds, as well as incentives for the birth of a second child and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/china-one-child-policy-implications-women-children-2018-7\">miscarriage prevention leave<\/a> to encourage its population to marry and bear children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the story neglected to report on was other reasons for the divorce downturn; both marriage <em>and<\/em> divorce rates are dramatically lower in many nations globally, due to the pandemic, although the complexities of the trend are still being researched. Some have speculated that those who would otherwise divorce are \u201cstuck,\u201d unable to make plans and move forward with their lives. But even these statistics are complicated. The American Family Survey, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/impakter.com\/covid-19-impacts-on-marriage-and-divorce\/\">found<\/a> that the \u201cshare of married men and women ages 18-55 saying their marriage is in trouble declined from 40% in 2019 to 29% in 2020.\u201d In other words, for a not-insignificant portion of married adults, the pandemic seems to have actually <em>improved<\/em> their marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, the introduction of a waiting period in China is an interesting move. Is it really what\u2019s making the difference in the divorce rate? Or is it some combination of other factors? It\u2019s impossible to say for sure at this point, but there is a significant amount of research indicating that globally, <a href=\"https:\/\/familyinamerica.org\/journals\/spring-summer-2020\/why-danes-divorce\/#.YLGTXZNKh70\">people in developed nations<\/a> divorce more often for emotional reasons (lack of love, \u201cit just didn\u2019t work,\u201d etc.) than reasons like abuse; meaning time to \u201ccool down\u201d may help. There\u2019s also research indicating that some divorcees\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-2727716\/Is-going-separate-ways-really-good-idea-Astonishing-50-divorcees-regret-breaking-partner.html\">one survey<\/a> has it at an astonishing half\u2014actually regret their divorce. Even a more <a href=\"https:\/\/marketing-assets.avvo.com\/media-resources\/avvo-research\/2016\/avvo_relationship_study_2016_final_report.pdf\">conservative estimate<\/a> of divorce regret puts it at roughly 25%. This may seem not so bad; most people are still happy with their decision to divorce. But a 25% \u201cerror\u201d rate is nothing to brag about when it comes to such a potentially devastating decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, China\u2019s mandatory waiting period seems a good place to start, giving Chinese couples a chance to cool down, reconsider, or face the reality of what life without their spouse is going to look like. But it likely won\u2019t do much in countering decades of a government-enforced one-child policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a reported 72% drop in divorces in China from last fall. 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