介绍:
The Civil Affairs Bureau of Chang'an District in Xi'an has introduced a divorce quota. Xi'an is capital of China's northwestern Shaanxi province.
In order to curb the increasing number of divorcees in the district, the bureau sets a threshold for the number of divorce cases it handles every day at no more than 15.
According to the bureau, this policy is aimed at cooling down those couples who "divorce on impulse" and provide them with a second chance of living together.
In China, the Civil Affairs Bureau is the only institution with the right to issue divorce papers.
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(QD) Ms. Wang tells xdkb.net,
My husband and I are set to be divorced. But when we went to the Civil Affairs Bureau for the procedure, staff there told us that the quota of the day had been met and we had to wait for a second day. What low efficiency! It was a complete waste of our time!
(JA) Yang Yanming says on whwb.cnhan.com,
The Marriage Law of China protects people's marriage freedom, which includes both the freedom of getting married and freedom of getting divorced. No institution has the right to interfere with people's marriage rights. In this case, I can fully understand that the local administrative bureau introduces such a quota out of good intention, but I still believe it's a violation of Chinese law and should be cancelled.
(LK) Hai Ning Jing Lu raises his idea on weibo.com,
Why not the administrative bureau makes some efforts to curb the increasing number of people who "getting married on impulse" at first? This group of people is most vulnerable to getting divorced quickly. As far as I'm concerned, this is the most effective way to lower down the divorce rate in an area.
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Notes:
---According to the bureau, since the introduction of a divorce quota in 2012, the number of divorcing cases in Chang'an district has been falling down stably year by year.
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(QD) Yun Xiao says on cnhubei.com,
Why the local government tries to curb the number of divorcing cases? Getting divorced is not so bad a thing. If a couple cannot happily live together anymore, why can't they apply for getting divorced? The government wants to see them living together painfully?!
(JA) Yu Minghui points out on cnr.cn,
If the local civil affairs bureau truly wants to lower down the divorce rate, it probably should be engaged in the divorcing process in a more acceptable way rather than simply setting a quota. For example, it can hire some psychological or marriage consultants to help divorcing couples remove barriers and persuade them to get back to their marriage, which is legal and truly helpful.
(LK) Huang Qianchuan, a lawyer, suggests on legaldaily.com.cn,
According to Chinese law, if a couple wants to be divorced, it's their free will to go to the local administrative bureau for the procedure at any time. The problem here is, even if the couple made the decision on impulse, for example, after they quarreled with each other, they could still get their divorce papers within a minute. But what if they regret on such a decision later on? Getting married with the same person one more time? I think we probably should learn from those western countries which set a "buffer period" for divorcing couples, say no shorter than 40 days, to provide them with enough time to make a reasonable decision?
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