Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Period Pressure Point

China, in search of the perfect husband

Thursdays and Sundays, from two in the afternoon, in the parks of major Chinese cities meet hundreds of parents (most already retired), with pictures of their children, to find a mate. So aim to ensure the continuity of lineage and by the way, have someone take care of them and keep them in their old age, because most Chinese have no pension.

This situation has come to blame (or thank, depending how you look) the trend of openness that China lives since the 80's, which is changing the concept of family, on which Chinese society is anchored. Tradition says that having a family ensures the stability and harmony. The patriarch controls both the economic aspects such as marriages of their children. The courtship is not appropriate and the love will come later (if so). Until recently youth have accepted without question, and women were aware that the only way to ensure the future when their parents disappear was to make a good marriage. In return, she went to live with her husband's family, was devoted exclusively to domestic tasks and enduring the scorn of her mother for stealing her son's attention. Fortunately, this is changing. For now, in big cities, where a married couple moves into a new apartment.

Young people are becoming less of a hurry to marry. Currently, the average age for women has been delayed 24 years. Have contributed to the delay in the 50's set a minimum age for marriage and that in the 80's there was an exodus from the countryside to the city. However, from the age of 26 believe that a woman is starting to happen rice.

But how about other young people if they spend their lives working and is frowned upon hang-out?. The solution lies in the marriage agencies and dating web pages (about six thousand registered in China), which holds the parents more than an unpleasant surprise. It's better to be cold to the park, so at least know before anything that might become his political family. Mothers looking for daughters responsible men, and above all, they have great respect for the elderly. Interestingly, the more prepared intellectually and better work has the girl's mother has it worse to find partners. And most singles are men with low educational level and limited resources, and can not tolerate a woman who is superior to them in some of these aspects. So the perfect candidate maids are women with doctoral university!

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