日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
China / Cover Story

Marriages need cash and love

By Jiang Xueqing (China Daily) Updated: 2011-10-18 08:33

 

Marriages need cash and love

Hu Jingjing has taken a tight grip of her husband's money since they got married in May, giving him 2,000 yuan ($313) a month as an allowance.

Sometimes he runs over budget after inviting his colleagues to a fairly expensive dinner. When this happens he takes money from home and tells his wife so that her bookkeeping is up to date.

Hu said that her husband is not good at taking care of money. Before they got married he had no savings, despite having worked for more than six years. Even worse, he had absolutely no idea where his money had gone.

"So I took his bank card," said Hu, a 28-year-old editor at a daily newspaper in Beijing.

She keeps a very clear and detailed record of how they spend their money, even expenses as tiny as 0.5 yuan. The couple makes 500,000 yuan a year and spends about 110,000 yuan, not including mortgage payments, which amount to 90,000 yuan a year.

"Money is very important to a marriage," Hu said, and one's life quality should not go down steeply after getting married.

"I remember the popular Hong Kong writer Yi Shu once wrote in her novel, 'I want a lot of love. If there is no love, I want a lot of money.' At least I should have either of them."

Love and money: Which is more important to a marriage?

Property off-limits

Some experts said the latest interpretation of the Marriage Law is an attempt to encourage people to marry for love rather than money by restricting treasure hunters' access to others' fortune through marriage.

The interpretation by the Supreme Court, which came into force on Aug 13, made it clear that a home purchased before marriage is the personal property of the person who bought it. In case of divorce, the registered owner must compensate his or her partner for mortgage payments and any increased value in the property.

If the parents of the husband or wife buy a house for their child and the property ownership certificate is registered solely to the child, the house will belong to the child in the event of a divorce.

In the past 10 years, housing prices have skyrocketed in cities. In Beijing, the average price of a typical apartment reached 23,730 yuan a square meter at the end of August, according to statistics from the Beijing Real Estate Transaction Management Network. To the majority of Chinese families, homes have become their most valuable properties.

Some people said the new Marriage Law interpretation will encourage people to care more about affection than property. Others believe that despite its good intentions, the legal interpretation cannot force people to upgrade their moral standards, regardless of the social reality.

"Marriage is not simply about love," said Jiang Yue, a professor in Xiamen University's law school and an expert in marriage law. "It is a process of living. Can you talk about love all day but have no place to sleep?

"Actually, we cannot make a clear separation of affection and material goods," she continued. "Otherwise, why would nobody fall in love with a homeless person who lives under an overpass?"

The modern cave

A survey of more than 100,000 single Chinese in 2009 found that for women, personal income ranked third among the top criteria in choosing a spouse, while physical appearance ranked third for men. Both men and women chose morality and personality as their top concerns, said Mu Yan, co-founder and vice-president of Baihe.com, one of the leading Chinese Internet dating and matchmaking sites.

Another survey by Baihe, conducted last year among 32,676 people ages 20 to 60, found that about 71 percent of women consider possession of a house a prerequisite for a man to get married, while only 48 percent of men have the same point of view. Nearly 86 percent of the people surveyed selected "having a stable income" as a precondition to tying the knot, followed by "having a house" (58 percent) and "having a certain amount of savings" (54 percent).

In general, the situation today is not much different from 5,000 years ago, Mu said. "In primitive communes, women must live in caves to bear children, so the men who are capable of occupying caves will find wives.

"In today's society, housing prices are rising fast... . As the general public and women in particular are feeling more and more insecure, their demands for housing and financial security will keep growing."

Marriages need cash and love 

Marriages need cash and love

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

Highlights
Hot Topics
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 久久久全国免费视频 | 在线观看成人小视频 | 男女爽爽爽免费视频 | 国产视频一区二区在线 | 日韩免费一区二区 | 久久福利片| 亚洲国产精品久久久久 | 国产黄频| av先锋资源 | 免费成人美女女在线观看 | 日韩中文字幕av | 蜜臀99久久精品久久久久小说 | 天天操天天爱天天干 | 大地资源中文在线观看免费版 | 国产精品1区2区3区4区 | 亚洲系列在线观看 | 久久久久国产一区二区三区 | 99热免费| 久久福利小视频 | 成人免费三级 | 美女久久久久久 | av青青| 日日夜夜网站 | 亚洲一区二区视频 | 婷婷狠狠爱 | 日本久久久久久 | 国产精品久久久视频 | 看毛片网站 | 免费的黄色的网站 | 8x8x华人在线 | 国产精品视频免费 | 亚色视频在线观看 | 精品国产区 | 一级片亚洲 | 青青草手机在线视频 | 91久久久久久久久 | 婷五月天 | 成人在线激情视频 | 天堂99 | 日韩国产在线 | 欧美日本三级 |