Professor has solution for China’s millions of bachelors

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Economics professor has solution for China’s millions of bachelors: let them share wives, or even marry each other

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 22 October, 2015, 7:01pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 22 October, 2015, 8:07pm

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Economics professor Xie Zoushi said it has been a practice in rural areas for brothers to share wives. File photo

With China facing the prospect of 30 million unmarried men by 2020, an economics professor has proposed a solution – allow poor bachelors to share a wife.

Xie Zuoshi, a professor at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, said it was a practical way for the nation to deal with the legacy of decades of an abnormally high sex ratio.

China has long had a traditional preference for boys over girls that has, if anything, increased under the one-child policy.

The birth ratio of boys compared with girls has been rising steadily, peaking in 2009 before dropping to 1.16 in 2014. The normal gender ratio at birth for China is between 1.02 to 1.07 boys born for every girl.

Between 24 million to 34 million more boys than girls were born in the past three decades, and most are unlikely to find wives, at least in China.

“It is a reality that we have so many more men than women. Serious social problems, such as rape and assaults, will happen if men cannot find wives. But it doesn’t have to be like that if they are given choices,” said Xie, who said he saw the problem from an economics point of view.

In terms of supply and demand, the rising number of bachelors had increased the scarcity of women and raised their value. Men with high incomes find wives first because they can afford to look after them. For low income men, one option is to a wife with another man.

“I am not joking. Any reasonable person applying critical thinking will come to the same conclusion. We can not deprive those men of wives just to be moral,” Xie said, saying it was already a practice in poor rural areas for brothers to share a wife.

Xie is 50 years old and married.

Another option is for women in other countries in Asia, such as in Vietnam, to come to China to get married.

He even proposed that China to changed its laws that made monogamy the only legal form of marriage. Sharing or even gay marriage should also be allowed, he said.

Xie’s proposal was not well received online with many questioning his moral stand. Yet Xie said he also received some support .

One said he agreed with Xie even though many criticised him because in his hometown it was common in rural areas before 1949 to have a bachelor living with a couple to share the wife and economic burden of the family.

Another said marriage was a private matter and should depend on the consent of the parties involved.





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