Source: CRI

10-09-2006 14:38

The weeklong National Day holiday has proven to be a good time not only for traveling and relaxing, but also for thinking over one's love relationship. On Sunday, the first day people went back to work, 55 couples filed for divorce in Nanjing, the capital of East China's Jiangsu Province. Among them, nearly 40% are young couples born in the late 1970s, the first batch of "single kids" after China's adoption of its family planning policy.

According to a staff member of one marriage registration office in Nanjing, they processed divorces for four couples on Sunday, and ten more people have come in for divorce consultation. The number of divorcees and inquirers on Sunday almost doubled that of an average day at this office.

Meanwhile, young couples under 30 have made up a larger part of divorce cases in recent years. They are mostly from single-child families and show a much less serious attitude toward marriage than their parents, says Hu Chunyan, an experienced divorce lawyer with Jiangsu Shengdian Law Office. She notes that many young married people, who were spoiled as the only child in their families, don't understand the importance of compromise in marriage and like to use divorce threats as a weapon in trivial fights. Besides, the meddling of overbearing parents in their children's relationships is also a major cause of breakups among young couples.

 

Editor:Lu Yuying