China's fourth wave of singles hits the initiative to increase single men and women
in the movie "BJ single diary", the hero Bridget Joan is a 32 year old leftover woman, a dull year, some urgent A woman who is not able to marry himself. However, the men around you say that a woman's love is a game of stool, and a girl who has no boyfriend at the age of thirty, just like a person who has not found a stool yet.
in China, some scholars have found that more than a certain age and not married rural men are considered to be different. Not only do they feel that they can't lift their heads, but also easily become the people who are intentionally or unintentionally excluded and isolated by the villagers. "The bachelors do not feel relieved."
however, singles are gradually becoming an independent group, a social symbol. According to media reports, there are 180 million single men and women in mainland China as of 2011. The trend of
is not unique to mainland China. Taiwan media reported that in 2012, the number of single people over 15 in Taiwan was 9 million 390 thousand, accounting for about 42% of the total population; the Japanese National Institute for social security and population problems predicted that by 2030, the proportion of unmarried men in Japan would increase to 30%, while women increased to 23%.
Eric Krijnenberg, Professor of sociology at the York University, wrote "single society", indicating that it represents the most important social change since the baby boom - we are learning to be single and that brings a new way of life: "it changes people's closest relationships to themselves, and human beings. "The understanding of the Department; it affects the city's construction and economic changes; it even changes the way people grow and grow, as well as the way human beings are old or even dead."
marriage and bachelors are all options for life. However, in traditional societies such as China, where marriage is the standard, singletons are statistically absolute minority groups. Apart from the spousal system, they are faced with obstacles from concepts to systems, from economy to psychology, and are ignored, sacrificed or discriminated against. The signs of
show that the single man's face is a hard road of thorns, leading to a future full of challenges and unclear prospects - where single is not wrong, but it will be punished.
unmarried mother's troubles
a rainy day in late autumn in Beijing. Wei Shan wore a hat for the daughter of the kindergarten, and stroked her head consciously, sighing with pain. The thin hair hung on the little head softly. The hairline is high, but the length is but the forehead. Her daughter's younger sister, who was younger than her, had braid up one by one, and her daughter could not.
she thought it was her fault. "A lot of illegitimate couples are climbing around." As a young unmarried mother, she breastfed alone, sometimes tired to cook rice for children, not to add anything else, so that her daughter was malnourished. These indicators of size, weight and hair appear to be worse than children of the same age.
"sometimes I think of these things, and I especially hate children, her father." Wean was aggravated. The man did not want to marry her, and so far. Wean is almost 40 years old and has a clear tail in the corner of his eye. Because of her old age, the doctor told her that if he knocked out this one, he might not be able to bear it in his whole life. After a few more thoughts, she chose to stay.
many unmarried mothers have similar situations. Weeshan knew an unmarried mother. She had a scar uterus with multiple uterine fibroids. She performed a myoma operation several years ago, and then relapsed. After the first child was conceived to the caesarean section, the postpartum doctor said that she could no longer do such operations. This means that the mother may only have this child.
Wei Shan's daughter is almost 3 years old, and is still "black household". Under the current family planning policy in China, a child must have a quasi birth certificate, that is, family planning service certificate. Therefore, illegitimate childbirth does not conform to the national family planning regulations and is illegal.
children born beyond the state regulations shall pay social maintenance fees. Like Wester, even if the first child is born, unmarried childbearing will be charged. This is a small amount of fine, usually linked to the per capita annual disposable income, and the standards are not the same everywhere.
wean's domicile in Chaoyang District, Beijing. In 2013, she was ready to pay the fine, but the amount exceeded expectations. The per capita disposable income of Beijing urban residents was 40321 yuan, and Weishan was told by the community planning committee that she needed to pay a fine of 6 times a fine, or 240 thousand yuan. "This is my first child, why should it be levied 6 times?"