China’s divorce rate up
NZPA-AFP Peking China’s divorce rate has mounted steadily since the adoption in 1981 of a new, more liberal marriage law, the Peking information magazine has reported. In the year after the new law came into effect, the divorce rate increased 27.2_ per cent, and since then" civil courts dealing with divorces have recorded an average of 500,000 marriages breaking up each year, the weekly said. It said that 70 per cent of divorces in China were made at the instigation of wives. The most common ground for divorce found by the magazine was lack of love. Other divorcees complained of their partner’s “lack of moral values,” “interference from third parties,” and “wanting to discard wives who give birth to females.”
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Press, 8 February 1985, Page 12
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