Marriage

China Couples Allowed To Have Three Children

China has announced that it will allow each couple to have up to three children, marking the end of a strict two-child policy.The change was approved by President Xi Jinping in a politburo meeting, state media outlet Xinhua said.It comes after a census published every 10 years showed that China's population grew at its slowest pace in decades.This added pressure on Beijing to boost measures for couples to have more babies and avert a population decline.Shrinking populations are problemat

31 May 2021
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Pandemic Taking A Toll On Relationships?

In the nearly 40 years between 1970 and 2008, it was reported that the global divorce rate had more than doubled – from 2.6 divorces for every 1,000 married people to 5.5.When a person gets married, never in a million years would he or she think that they would become part of that statistic. Following Wuhan’s COVID-19 lockdown early last year, when the city where the virus first emerged reopened, it did so to an increased rate of divorce.

6 January 2021
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