China’s Marriage Rate Plummets As Women Choose To Stay Single Longer
Posted on August 2, 2018
NPR.ORG – July 31 – Mrs. Wang has come to Shanghai's "marriage market" each weekend for the past three months to try and find a suitable husband for her daughter. Wang blames her 33-year-old daughter's single status on the seven years she spent in the U.K., where Wang says her daughter "became more independent." But there are other reasons – apart from Western influence – why China's marriage rate has plummeted by ~30% in the last five years. Dai Xuan, 30, works as the editor of a luxury magazine in Shanghai and says her own reasons are economic. "Before, in China, you married to survive," she says. "Now I'm living well by myself, so I have higher expectations in marriage."
