5. Family

This is a tough subject to comment on. Overall it seems to me that family is important to Chinese, more so than in the USA. However, I have observed some negatives about families here. For example, I've talked to many students whose parents are still married but the father doesn't live with them. I've observed that this is much more common than I would have ever thought at first glance at Chinese families. Divorce is much lower in China than the USA. But, it seems that one reason it is lower is that the laws here do not favor the woman in a divorce, contrary to divorce laws in the USA, which do favor the woman in divorce.

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