{"id":40935,"date":"2022-03-30T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40935"},"modified":"2022-03-30T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T10:30:56","slug":"chinas-demographic-crisis-sparks-renewed-calls-to-lower-worlds-oldest-legal-ages-for-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40935","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s demographic crisis sparks renewed calls to lower world\u2019s oldest legal ages for marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is facing renewed calls to lower its legal marriageable ages \u2013 the oldest in the world \u2013 after its number of marriages plunged to a new low last year. But some demographers are questioning the effectiveness of allowing people to tie the knot earlier in life, as a trend of delayed marriages is expected to continue while China becomes more urbanised and its young people shy away from the high costs of raising a family. The number of Chinese people in their first marriages fell nearly 50 per\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/economic-indicators\/article\/3172427\/chinas-demographic-crisis-sparks-renewed-calls-lower?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is facing renewed calls to lower its legal marriageable ages \u2013 the oldest in the world \u2013 after its number of marriages plunged&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}