Fertility Decline via Marital Postponement in China

Hu, Tien

doi:10.1177/009770047500100404

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“…In urban areas, age requirements were higher: brides had to be 25 and grooms 27 years of age (Coale 1989;Whyte, Wang, and Cai 2015;Ye 1992). These thresholds were higher than the legal minimums for age at marriage, but local family planning officials were charged with upholding these requirements and the "late marriage rate" became an indicator of their job performance (Huang 1982;Tien 1975Tien , 1983Zeng, Vaupel, and Wang 1993).…”

Section: Historical Contexts Of Evolving Age At Marriage In Chinamentioning

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Child Marriage in Mainland China

Fan

Qian

Koski

2022

Studies in Family Planning

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Child marriage, defined as marriage before 18 years of age, has harmful consequences for health and development and is an indicator of gender inequality. We used publicly available data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses to estimate the national and provincial‐level prevalence of child marriage across mainland China. Between 2000 and 2010, the prevalence of child marriage rose from 2.41 percent to 2.85 percent among women and from 0.54 percent to 0.77 percent among men. The 2010 estimates are equivalent to roughly 1.8 million women and 0.5 million men. Child marriage was more common in western provinces among both girls and boys. Provincial prevalence estimates ranged from 0.44 percent in Beijing to 12.94 percent in Qinghai among girls. Among boys, estimates ranged from 0.13 percent in Beijing to 5.03 percent in Tibet. The gender gap widened across much of the country between censuses. Our results indicate that child marriage continues across mainland China despite laws that ostensibly prohibit the practice. They also draw attention to the global nature of child marriage as a threat to gender equality.

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Child Marriage in Mainland China

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Qian

Koski

2022

Studies in Family Planning

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“…In the 1970s in some areas the required documents could be obtained without difficulty only when the sum of their ages was not less than 50. 15 During the intensified population control efforts of the 1970s, moreover, the " late marriage rate " emerged as one measure for evaluating the performance of local birth planning units. It was defined as the percentage of women and men married in a calendar year who conform to the late marriage age requirements (after ages 23 and 25, respectively, in rural areas; and after ages 25 and 28, respectively, in urban areas.)…”

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Age at Marriage in the People's Republic of China

Tien¹

1983

The China Quarterly

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China's Marriage Law of 1980 went into effect on New Year's Day 1981, permitting women and men to marry at 20 and 22, respectively. This contrasts sharply with the late marriage requirements of the 1970s, whichstipulated 23 and 25 years for women and men in the rural areas and 25 and 28 years for their urban sisters and brothers. The new legal minimum ages for marriage caused an instant upsurge in the numbers of young people getting married in China. One scholar estimated that as many as 30 million marriages would take place in 1981 as millions of young women and men took advantage of the new legal minimum. It was later officially projected that first marriages in 1981 would probably reach at least 14 million, more than twice the number in 1980. And, because of the “baby boom” of the 1960s marriage rates are likely to remain high through the mid 1990s.

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Acceptance of contraceptive practice by grandmultiparae in Benin City, Nigeria

Omu

Unuigbe

1986

Intl J Gynecology & Obste

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Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981. Their parity ranged from 5 to 14 with a mean of 6.7. There was high level of awareness of contraceptive availability and usefulness (65%), but low level of practice (27.1%). The main causes of the low practice level included opposition from husband and other relatives, complications of previous methods used and the desire to have a large family. Oral contraceptives were the preferred method, followed by intrauterine devices. Educational attainment had a positive relationship to acceptance of contraceptive practice. We believe that with more concerted effort at family planning counseling, the community will be rid of the hazards and menace of grandmultiparity.

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Fertility Decline via Marital Postponement in China

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Child Marriage in Mainland China

Child Marriage in Mainland China

Age at Marriage in the People's Republic of China

Acceptance of contraceptive practice by grandmultiparae in Benin City, Nigeria

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