Shanghai, City of Youth - Part Two
Dating, marriage and why young people are delaying the traditional family in Shanghai.
Haining Liu explores the pressure on China's one-child generation to marry and start a family. At the 鈥榤arriage market鈥� in central Shanghai she meets the anxious parents desperate to find a suitable match for their single offspring and drops in on a speed dating event in the city where young men and women are hoping to find a life partner.
But young people are increasingly also choosing a career or the single life over the traditional family, and despite the stigma of being unmarried over 30, Haining explores a new trend for women to freeze their eggs so they can delay marriage and motherhood.
(Photo: Visitors participate in speed dating at the Shanghai Marriage Expo 2012. Credit: Peter Parks/AFP)
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