Letters

Too many marry for wrong reason

Comment on "Govt seeks ways to reverse worrying rise in divorce rate" (China Daily, March 31)

One of the major problems I have found in my 10 years in China is the fact that so many couples should never have married. They marry for all the wrong reasons, often because of parental pressure. I have never seen such meddling in my life. The basis for marriage is love, not because one mother knows another mother and wouldn't it be great if my son marries your daughter. There are reports of young people renting a boyfriend or girlfriend to go home during Spring Festival because of family pressures, or we see young people simply not wanting to go home because of the family pressure about getting married they know they will face.