Saturday, January 22, 2005

Marriage regulations Learned something new today: in China university students are not allowed to get married or become pregnant. Even post-graduate students do not have this right, but they can apply for permission (but if they get pregnant they will be expelled for a year). According to articles in the Chinese press the rules might change soon, and many students are happy about this. Personally I feel it's actually not a bad regulation, especially for young women who might drop out of school once they are married. Marriage is still much more important here than in the part of the world where I originally come from. If a woman finds a man who proposes, she is likely to give up her study to become a house wife or find a job to support the family. However, because there is still another law that prevents women from marrying until they are 20, they are probably already a bit further in their studies, and so a little less likely to drop out. And if you wonder what the rules for men are, they cannot get married until they are at least 22. 6:31:53 PM    comment []