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Chinese Marriages Sid by a Fifth in 2024, Fanning Birthrate Concerns
Channel News Asia ^ | 10 Feb 2025

Posted on 02/10/2025 12:20:48 PM PST by nickcarraway

Marriages in China plummeted by a fifth last year, the biggest drop on record, despite manifold efforts by authorities to encourage young couples to wed and have children to boost the country's declining population.

Declining interest in getting married and starting a family has long been blamed on the high cost of childcare and education in China. On top of that, sputtering economic growth over the past few years has made it difficult for university graduates to find work and those that do have jobs feel insecure about their long-term prospects. More than 6.1 million couples registered for marriage last year, down from 7.68 million a year earlier, figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed.

"Unprecedented! Even in 2020, due to COVID-19, marriages only decreased by 12.2 per cent," said Yi Fuxian, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He noted that the number of marriages in China last year was less than half of the 13.47 million in 2013. If this trend continues, "the Chinese government's political and economic ambitions will be ruined by its demographic Achilles' heel", he added. For Chinese authorities, boosting interest in marriage and baby-making is a pressing concern.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthrate; children; china; deomgraphics; marriage; population
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1 posted on 02/10/2025 12:20:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Like we really need more Chinese...............


2 posted on 02/10/2025 12:23:31 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: nickcarraway

“Declining interest in getting married and starting a family has long been blamed on the high cost of childcare and education in China.”

No different than the West. But ever wonder why “high cost of childcare and education” only become an issue AFTER a country becomes wealthy (and don’t argue it - China is not nearly as destitute as Europe is becoming).


3 posted on 02/10/2025 12:23:44 PM PST by BobL
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To: nickcarraway

Should have thought about that before they did that “1 Child Per Family” thing.


4 posted on 02/10/2025 12:29:32 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Sid bought a fifth?


5 posted on 02/10/2025 12:30:02 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: nickcarraway

China is the oldest population on Earth. Its ponzi scheme is crashing.


6 posted on 02/10/2025 12:34:58 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: BobL

Both China and the west suffer from centrally-planned, government controlled, debt-bloated, printed-money, materialist and anti-human governments.

Theirs more so than ours, obviously, but the consequences are the similar.

Humans don’t wan’t to be debt-slaves, beholden to government and manipulated by propaganda and social-engineering.


7 posted on 02/10/2025 12:35:54 PM PST by PGR88
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To: All

There are over a billion of them , I wouldn’t worry too much


8 posted on 02/10/2025 12:38:30 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: BobL
The whole "high cost of childcare" thing is fundamentally nonsense. Go back 200 years and 90%+ of every population was engaged in raising food (cattle, crops, fishing, etc) just to survive. And yet somehow they could afford to have children.

Now it takes around 3% of the population to grow plenty of food (with lots left over for pets, ethanol, plastics and other industrial applications, and simple wastage) - and yet we can't afford kids? It's called lifestyle choices, and it just boils down to people not wanting to impinge on their lifestyle with the "burden" of raising kids.

The way things are going, many of these people who skipped having children are literally going to die lying in their own cr*p in understaffed nursing homes as populations implode with no one to take care of them. So be it I guess.

9 posted on 02/10/2025 12:38:37 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: PGR88

I’m wondering if people here can figure out why fertility rates take a dive when countries start becoming wealthy, without exception. Seems to me that the cost of childcare and education should drive-down fertility in poor and destitute countries far more than in wealthy countries...but it doesn’t.

Why?

(once people understand the real answer, they can start working on solutions)


10 posted on 02/10/2025 12:41:12 PM PST by BobL
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To: PGR88

Malthusian education in public schools is responsible for the current attitude that children are a burden.


11 posted on 02/10/2025 12:43:25 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Sid Vicious.


12 posted on 02/10/2025 12:44:08 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: nickcarraway

They got to be kidding. They are already overpopulated.

On the other hand, we could send them all our deportees. That would give them a 10 million or so population boost.

Clean out our prisons, that’s likely another million.

Send them all the corrupt democrats and those with TDS, and now we are really talking about helping their numbers out.


13 posted on 02/10/2025 12:49:30 PM PST by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: BobL

A key issue, is that many young people, both men and women, don’t see marriage and family life as important to their lives.

Then we would have to ask, why is this?

Are they fearful of marriage because of fear of divorce?

Do they see children as a burden who will keep them from spur of the moment vacations and other fun?

Concerns about the cost of buying a house nowadays?

Fear of missing out on life, if they are tied down with kids?


14 posted on 02/10/2025 12:50:06 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: redfreedom

They’d harvest their organs and sell them back to us.


15 posted on 02/10/2025 12:51:44 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: EnderWiggin1970
The way things are going, many of these people who skipped having children are literally going to die lying in their own cr*p in understaffed nursing homes as populations implode with no one to take care of them.

My parents had seven children. There was always someone around to help them, even when mom had a stroke and needed constant care.

Some of my childless, baby-boom relatives will face the scenario you mentioned - farmed out to Govt-run prog death-centers, to be abused by low IQ govt union employees and migrants "doing the jobs Americans don't want to do."

16 posted on 02/10/2025 12:52:50 PM PST by PGR88
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To: EnderWiggin1970

“It’s called lifestyle choices, and it just boils down to people not wanting to impinge on their lifestyle with the “burden” of raising kids.”

Good answer, here’s mine:
1. Social Security - used to be kids, now it’s government.
2. Women Working - The biggest factor. In poor societies (or at least less ‘enlightened’ societies) women stayed home and either would be bored all day, or have kids. In wealthy societies, kids are just another ‘tradeoff’ in life - in fact, a drag on women (and any men that might be stupid enough to hook with them).

So your answer fits. Why should anyone be tied-down with (parasitic) kids when they can have everything - tons of money, tons of freedom. Just a great life. A wonderful life. Everything you need...that is until your capabilities start to degrade and you find that the nice guy who recently started calling you to check up on you...wound up cleaning out your retirement money...and you wonder who can you now trust, and even how long it will take for someone to find you body.


17 posted on 02/10/2025 12:53:18 PM PST by BobL
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yep, in wealthy societies couples (and single women) have CHOICES...and about the worst one, from a practical sense, in the 20 to 40 year old age group is to be burdened with kids.

It’s very sad that these same people cannot be shown, or cannot understand what they will be thinking at 60+ years old.


18 posted on 02/10/2025 12:55:48 PM PST by BobL
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To: gundog

LOL! At least they’d be permanently taken care of with no blood on our hands.


19 posted on 02/10/2025 12:57:10 PM PST by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: nickcarraway

...quite the house of cards you built there, Zedong...


20 posted on 02/10/2025 12:59:14 PM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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