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China has mandated a 30-day “cooling-off” period for people filing for divorce since 2021, despite criticism that it could make it harder for women to leave broken or even abusive marriages.
Although divorce was now legally recognized, thousands of women lost their lives for attempting to divorce their husbands and some committed suicide when the right to divorce was withheld. [73] Divorce, once seen as a rare act during the Mao era (1949–1976), has become more common with rates continuing to increase. [ 74 ]
In 2010, the 1.96 million couples applying for divorce in 2010 represented a rate 14% higher than the year before and doubled from ten years ago. [3] Despite the rising divorce rate, marriage is still thought of as a natural part of the life course and as a responsibility of good citizenship in China. [4]
This measures the number of divorces per 1,000 women married to men, so that all unmarried persons are left out of the calculation. [1] For example, if that same city of 10,000 people has 3,000 married women, and 30 couples divorce in one year, then the refined divorce rate is 10 divorces per 1,000 married women.
In 2022, the divorce rate was 2.4 per 1,000 people. Although that isn’t the lowest it has ever been – in 2021, it was 2.3 – it continues a downward trend, according to the data.
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Divorce rates in Shanghai and Beijing, China's two most populated economic centres, have been steadily rising since 2005 with it reaching 30% in 2012. [46] In 2016, divorce rates rose by 8.3% from 2015 to 4.2 million. [47] At the same time, in 2017, marriage rates have declined since 2013 to 8.3%, down from a peak of 9.9% in 2013. [47]
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