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May 25, 2022Survey: More overseas Chinese prefer prenup agreements
Contrary to the notion that most Chinese people are unwilling to sign prenuptial agreements, more overseas Chinese are showing a positive attitude toward the pacts, a recent survey found.
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May 25, 2022Cooling-off rule leads to big decline in divorce rate
After 17 years of growth, China's divorce rate has registered a precipitous decline. About 966,000 couples divorced in the first half of this year, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. That is a nearly 40 percent decline year-on-year or a 52 percent plunge compared with the same period in 2019.
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May 25, 2022
China's orphan population declines by 66 percent
The number of orphans dipped 66 percent between 2012 and 2019, from about 570,000 to 190,000, a Ministry of Civil Affairs official said Tuesday.
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May 25, 2022
3-child policy proposed as society ages
A key meeting of the Communist Party of China unveiled on Monday a policy that would allow all couples to have up to three children, in place of the current universal two-child policy, in a bid to cope with an increasingly aging society. It also pledged stronger support for families.
