Once bitten, twice shy

A rising divorce rate among young Chinese is producing a surprising outcome. It is teaching the 'Me Generation?the virtues of considered decisions. Tiffany Tan reports

Tina Wang married her first boyfriend in the spring of 2008 because he was pressing her for sex and she did not want to do it outside marriage. By the summer of 2009, they were divorced. "I couldn't tolerate his temper ...we always argued,"Wang, 27, says. "I wanted to find someone who would be a better match for me."

Wang belongs to the "post-1980s generation", single children who are the product of China's 1979 family planning policy and the people who are fueling the country's rising divorce rate, experts say.