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Thread: Why does Extramarital affair occur very often in China?
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[quote=MARRIE,271381]Marriage experts say Shanghai residents today show different attitudes towards marriage than previous generations. "They focus more on spiritual enjoyment than the material satisfaction," said Xu Anqi,a marriage expert in Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Previously, Shanghai locals placed greater emphasis on income, working conditions and physical appearance than emotional feelings or love. They were once seen by the rest of the country as people who were too snobbish on the issue of marriage. But now the younger generation tends to be able to focus more on their inner feelings, as the economic conditions for most people in Shanghai have been greatly improved. "As the young generation, we regard it as a rather natural thing to divorce with our spouses if we don't have any love in our daily life," said Wang. "The rapidly changing society brings a great challenge to marital stability," said Xu. "A cross-section of factors keeps driving up the divorce rate." Last year, 1.78 million couples in China were divorced, 120,000 more than the previous year. Shanghai alone saw about 30,000 divorces, 12 percent up on 2004. Easier procedures The length of marriages has become shorter and shorter. The one-week marriage, one-month marriage and half-year-marriage are not unusual in Shanghai. The simplification of divorce procedures is believed to be a major factor in the rise. In days gone by, those who wanted to get divorced had to get approval first from their employers. Usually the employers would persuade them to drop the plans, as divorce was seen as a disgrace for the whole work unit. Few people could successfully walk into the divorce office and get a divorce certificate. "I originally planned to get divorced from my wife in the 1990s, but at that time divorce required numerous procedures, which added great difficulty to ending the relationship," said a man, who asked not to be named, was married for 20 years, but is now divorced. "The procedures now are easy, and we ended our marriage in minutes after we went to the divorce office. I feel finally relieved to end a marriage that was without love." Post-marriage blues A recent survey showed that people aged between 28 and 35 account for one-fifth of all divorced people. They also face the most volatile marital relationships, and are most susceptible to divorce. [/quote]
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