Original title: university professors suggest reducing the legal age of marriage: 20 for men and 18 for women! Do you support the four reasons?
Scholars make complaints about early marriage and early childhood by netizens.
When people are discussing whether to have children or not, another problem begins to appear: the first marriage age of citizens is getting higher and higher, and the marriage rate is getting lower and lower.
How can you procrastinate even when you get married?
According to the data, in 2018, the national marriage rate was only 7.2 & permil;, It hit a new low in the past decade. At the same time, the first marriage age of Chinese people is getting later and later. For example, the average first marriage age of Jiangsu people is as high as 34.2 years old!
In the face of such a situation, some deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress have suggested adjusting the legal marriage age. Recently, another scholar published an article in Guangming Daily, suggesting that the legal age of marriage should be appropriately reduced: men should not be earlier than 20 years old and women should not be earlier than 18 years old.
Scholars suggest that the legal age of marriage should be appropriately reduced:
Male 20 years old, female 18 years old
On August 4, Wang Liping, a professor at the Law School of Shandong University, published an article in Guangming Daily, saying that under the current development situation in China, the legal marriage age of 22 years old for men and 20 years old for women is not suitable for China's national conditions and should be appropriately reduced. It is suggested that the marriage age should not be earlier than 20 weeks old for men and 18 years old for women.
Wang Liping put forward four arguments in the article:
First, China's provisions on the legal age of marriage are on the high side.
Horizontal comparison, China's provisions on the legal age of marriage are the highest in all countries. Vertical comparison, China's marriage law in 1980 matched with the family planning policy at that time. For the purpose of properly controlling population growth, the legal age of marriage stipulated in the marriage law in 1950 was increased by two years. It can be said that the current legal age of marriage is also the highest in China's history.
Second, reducing the legal age of marriage is the need of China's current population policy.
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Since the 12th Five Year Plan, the growth of China's total population has slowed down significantly, the population of working age and women of childbearing age have decreased significantly, the degree of social aging has intensified, and the people's fertility will has changed significantly. In response to these major changes, the Fertility Policies of "two children alone" in 2013 and "two children in an all-round way" in 2016 mean that the goal of population and family planning has shifted from controlling the number to promoting the long-term balanced development of the population. In this historical context, appropriately reducing the legal age of marriage has become an option.
Third, reducing the legal age of marriage is conducive to changing the current phenomenon of high age of first marriage and first child-bearing.
The average age of first marriage in China has increased from 23.70 years in 1982 to 25.97 years in 2010. In addition, from 1990 to 2017, the average age of first marriage of women of childbearing age in China increased from 21.4 to 25.7, and the average age of first childbearing also increased from 23.4 to 26.8.
Fourth, in real life, there is a phenomenon that men and women live together and have children because they have not reached the legal marriage age and can not handle marriage registration.
This phenomenon has a certain universality in some areas of China, and often leads to disputes and even malignant events. Appropriately reducing the legal age of marriage is conducive to the conclusion of marriage protected by law and the protection of the rights and interests of women and children.
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In fact, recently, many people have suggested lowering the legal age for marriage. According to Xinhua news agency, when the 11th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress held a group discussion on the second review of the draft marriage and family series and the second review of the draft succession series of the civil code in June this year, member Zhang Sujun proposed to adjust the legal age of marriage to 18 for both men and women.
According to the 21st century economic news, in March this year, Ding liming, deputy to the National People's Congress, suggested that the marriage age should be changed to "men should not be earlier than 20 years old and women should not be earlier than 18 years old".
The United Nations Human Rights Commission believes that the legal age of marriage should not be less than 15 years old. Judging from the legal age of marriage in various countries and regions around the world, the legal age of marriage for Chinese men aged 22 and women aged 20 is indeed a little high.
Source: dongfang.com
The more developed the economy, the lower the marriage rate?
According to the data of the National Bureau of statistics and the Ministry of civil affairs, as of 2018, the national marriage rate has decreased for five consecutive years, only 7.2 & permil;, And hit a new low in the past decade.
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First, the decline in the marriage rate is related to the overall population structure.
In the statistical bulletin on the development of social services in 2017 previously released by the Ministry of civil affairs, there is a paragraph that states: "in 2017, marriage registration at the age of 25-29 accounted for the largest proportion of the total married population, accounting for 36.9%."
People aged 25-29 are the 'main force' of newlyweds. This age group was born between 1988 and 1992. According to the data provided by China Statistical Yearbook, during this period, China's overall birth rate (the ratio of births per 1000 people in one year) increased from 22.37 & permil in 1988; It gradually decreased to 18.24 & permil; in 1992;. In this way, it can be concluded that as the population base suitable for childbearing decreases, the population with conditional marriage will naturally decrease.
Keeping pace with the decline in the marriage rate is the trend of late marriage in China.
Before 2012, the main force of Chinese newlyweds was people aged 20-24. In 2013, people in the 25-29 age range achieved the "anti surpassing" of people in the 20-24 age group, contributing the most newlyweds.
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This phenomenon is more obvious in economically developed areas.
According to the data, at the end of 2018, the marriage rate in Shanghai and Zhejiang was the last two in China, and the marriage rate in Shanghai was 4.4 & permil;, The lowest in the country. In addition, the marriage rate in developed coastal areas such as Tianjin, Guangdong and Beijing is also low.
The areas with the highest marriage rate are underdeveloped areas such as Tibet, Qinghai, Anhui and Guizhou. The marriage rate in Guizhou reached 11.1 & permil; in 2018;, The country is ahead. The difference between the regions with the highest and lowest marriage rates in China is more than double.
In some developed areas, the age of first marriage has even risen to a high level over the age of 30. For example, according to the data released by Jiangsu Provincial Department of civil affairs in January this year, in 2017, the average age of first marriage in Jiangsu was 34.2 years old, including 34.3 years old for women and 34.1 years old for men. The average age of first marriage in 13 cities of Jiangsu Province has reached over 30 years old. Even the Suzhou people who got married the earliest have reached 30.2 years old.
The data also show that the low birth rate in developed areas is consistent with the low marriage rate.
In 2018, the birth rate in Shanghai was 7.2 & permil;, Liaoning is 6.39 & permil;, 6.67 & permil; in Tianjin;, These areas have a high urbanization rate.
In 2018, the birth rate in Qinghai was 14.31 & permil;, Anhui is 12.41%, Guangxi is 14.12 & permil;, The level of urbanization in these areas is not very high, and the per capita GDP is not ahead of the country.
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In economically developed areas, people seem less willing to marry and have children. What do the young people in these big cities think?
According to a previous report in the overseas edition of the people's daily, Yu Xian, who is engaged in auditing in Beijing, said that big cities have a fast pace and fierce competition. " It is normal for the audit industry to travel overtime. There is no time for dating and blind dates. "
How can you get married if you don't care about talking in love? This reflects the dilemma faced by many young people working in cities. Even young people with stable relationships, many of them said they did not dare to 'talk about marriage'. Xu Shan, a white-collar worker in Shanghai, said bluntly, "the cost of living is rising, and after marriage, we will inevitably consider the expenses of childbirth and childcare". The transformation from individual to family is not easy.
The relatively high house prices in economically developed areas have also delayed the pace of young people entering marriage to a certain extent. Yu Xian said bluntly: 'without a house, my mother-in-law certainly doesn't want to live in a shared house. It's also inconvenient to live in a shared house. But high house prices like Beijing are hard to afford before the age of 35. "
Is it too much pressure or waiting for true love
Lu Jiehua, Professor of Sociology Department of Peking University, said that with the development of economy and society, great changes have taken place in the concept of marriage and childbearing between generations. For many post-80s and post-90s, late marriage and non marriage are becoming more and more common, social tolerance is also improving, and marriage is no longer the only choice.
In addition, many urban marriageable young people said they would rather lack than abuse and do not worry about getting married. Lu Zifu, who works in Nanjing, has a house, a car and time, but he still said that "marriage is a lifelong thing. We still need to find people who have the same three views and can communicate deeply. Age is not the decisive factor".
In addition, with the improvement of economic income and education, more and more young people have the capital to postpone the marriage age and wait patiently for the right candidate.
In earlier years, many young people got married when they were twenty-three or four years old. Now, with the popularization of higher education, the number of years of education for young people has increased. They may be 23 years old after graduation, and the age of marriage is bound to be pushed back. At present, nearly half of China's adult population will receive higher education, the number of students entering the master's and doctor's stages is also increasing year by year, and the age of independence, work and marriage of young people will be postponed.
Earlier, in the vote launched by the people's daily microblog, more than 87% of netizens opposed reducing the legal marriage age. Many people think that they graduated from high school at the age of 18 and they are still a child & hellip& hellip;