Young newlyweds seek divorce at increasing rate, court reports say
By Zhou Wenting in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2013-11-12 07:20
As Marilyn Monroe's 1955 movie The Seven Year Itch suggested, after seven years, marriages have a high risk of coming to an end.
That duration is even shorter for China's post-1980 generation, if two court reports are to be believed.
A report released by Shanghai's Huangpu District People's Court ahead of Singles' Day on Monday said the length of marriages it legally put asunder averaged only three years and nine months.
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