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Hello everyone, I'm Lantai.
Today, Lantai will talk to you about the topic of divorce.
There are always netizens who say how simple the society was in the past and how low the divorce rate was; and how high the divorce rate is now, indicating that modern society is full of materialism.
Lan Tai felt that this statement of "thick past and thin present" was not accurate.
First of all, after the promulgation of the Marriage Law in New China, there was a "wave of divorce" throughout the country; but in the 1950s, especially in the vast rural areas, women's divorce was likely to cost their lives.
According to a report by China Youth Daily on January 23, 1953 on the implementation of freedom of love and marriage in 1952, in 1952 alone, more than 1,000 young men and women lost their lives in pursuit of freedom of marriage.
For example, in 57 counties and cities in Zhejiang Province, from January 1952 to July 1952 alone, 438 people died in pursuit of freedom of marriage (including killing and suicide);
Even in the relatively open Guangdong Province, from January to October 1952, 366 people died in the pursuit of marriage freedom in incomplete statistics in 52 counties and cities.
According to a report in China Youth Daily that year, at least 50 percent of the dead were women, and in some areas, the number was more than 90 percent.
Among the women who have been killed, most of them have been killed by their husbands because they want to divorce, some have been killed by their husbands and mothers-in-law, and some women have committed suicide because grass-roots cadres do not support divorce or reflect that they have not been properly protected by long-term abuse.
This shows that in the 1950s, many people were reluctant to divorce not because of "simplicity", but because the cost of divorce was too high.
After the reform and opening up, the 10 years from 1980 to 1990 were one of the two peak periods of reform and opening up until now, and the rough divorce rate rose by 108% in 10 years.
In 1992, the national crude divorce rate had reached 0.73 per cent, while it was not until 2010 that the national gross divorce rate exceeded 2 per cent.
According to two academic papers, "The Trend of Changes in the Level and Age Distribution of Divorce in Mainland China Since the 1980s" and "Marriage Law and Marriage and Family Changes in the 1980s", the divorce rate in China gradually increased in the 1980s.
In 1980, China's crude divorce rate was 0.35%, but by 1992, the crude divorce rate had risen to 0.73%. The average annual increase is 13.5%, and the highest annual growth rate is 54.5%.
To put it bluntly, throughout the 80s, GDP growth was the fastest, maintaining more than 20% all year round; in addition to GDP, which is the growth rate of divorce rates, it is also double digits all year round.
Here I would like to talk a little about the rise in the divorce rate in several major cities at that time, mainly based on the "Trend of Changes in the Level and Age Distribution of Divorce in Mainland China Since the 1980s".
"Trends in the Level and Age Distribution of Divorce in Mainland China Since the 1980s"
The general divorce rate in Beijing rose from 2.35 in 1982 to 4.61 in 1990, an increase of 96.2% compared with 128.8% in the crude divorce rate.
The general divorce rate in Shanghai rose by 127.5% and the crude divorce rate by 171.7%.
Among them, the most serious rise is Xinjiang, where the crude divorce rate reached 4.16 in 1982, the highest in the country.
On the contrary, Guangdong, as the forefront of reform and opening up, had a crude divorce rate of only 0.35 in 1982.
Lantai consulted many materials and found that the reason why the rough divorce rate in Xinjiang in 1982 was so high was mainly because at that time, many inland people in Xinjiang could choose to return to the mainland, and many couples wanted to return to the mainland and one wanted to stay in the local development; this led to a period of time when the divorce rate in Xinjiang soared, becoming the highest in the country.
But Xinjiang experienced a sharp rise in 1982, and by 1990, the crude divorce rate was declining, and it was the only region in the country where the divorce rate had declined. However, in 1990, the rough divorce rate in Xinjiang still reached 3.79, which is also the highest in the country.
As the forefront of reform, Guangdong's rough divorce rate in 1982 was so low, which is probably related to the relatively good clan culture maintained in Guangdong.
All in all, Lantai believes that it is very unscientific and unscientific to judge whether a society is materialistic or not by the level of the "divorce rate".
Attached: Divorce rate/crude divorce rate
Zhai Zhenwu, dean of the School of Society and Population at Chinese Min University, said that the "rough divorce rate" generally refers to the number of divorces or the logarithm of divorces divided by the total population in a certain period of time. It is called the rough divorce rate because, in calculating the divorce rate, the denominator should strictly be the number of married people rather than the total population, but because it is difficult to count the total number of married people, the total population is used.
The general divorce rate, which refers to the number of divorces or the logarithm of divorces divided by the number of married people, is called the general divorce rate.
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