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China
中国
In the past, it is disgraceful to get divorced or to remarry for the Chinese women. But according to a new survey, the value of the Chinese family is gradually changing. Based on the development of social service statistical bulletin in 2013, issued by the Chinese ministry of civil affairs, in 2013, there were altogether 3.5 million couples got divorced according to law throughout the country, an increase of 12.8% over the last year, which is a decade of increasing divorce rate since 2004. According to the census results, issued by the Hong Kong SAR government, 2012, in Hong Kong, the single rate of marriageable population was clearly increasing. In the marriageable age stage of people ranging in age from 20 to 49, according to the census of 2001, male single rate rose to 46.8% from 39.3%, the women’s single rate rose to 38.9%from 34.0%. In recent 30 years, Hong Kong’s divorce rate rises 10 times, ranking ninth in the world. According to Hong Kong economic daily reports, a survey of visiting 2000 households found only sixty percent of the respondent think marriage is necessary for life, 64% of respondents feel great pressure to rear children; 45% of incumbents think it is difficult to balance family and job, which is increased dramatically compared with 25% three years ago. In addition, 57% of respondents believe that, for a couple who can’t live in harmony and have no children, getting a divorce is the best solution. Based on this, Some Hong Kong scholars have pointed out that the family values of Hong Kong have been weakened in the “breakthrough point”.
过去，中国妇女离婚、改嫁被视为一件不光彩的事。但是新近的调查发现，中国人的家庭价值观正在逐渐发生改变。据中国民政部发布的2013年社会服务发展统计公报显示，2013年全国依法办理离婚手续的共有350万对，比上年增长了12.8％，这是从2004年以来，中国离婚率连续10年递增。根据香港特区政府2012年公布的人口普查结果，香港适婚人口的单身率出现明显上升。在20岁至49岁这一适婚年龄阶段，男性单身率由2001年普查时的39.3%上升至46.8%，女性单身率则由34.0%上升至38.9%。近30年来，香港的离婚率骤升10倍，高居全球第九位。据香港《经济日报》报道，一项访问了2,000个住户的调查发现，仅六成受访者认为婚姻对人生有必要；64%受访者对养儿育女感到巨大压力；45%在职者认为家庭与工作间难以平衡，比3年前的25%大幅增加。另外，有57%的受访者认为，对于无法和谐共处而又没有子女的夫妻，接受离婚是最佳的解决方法。有香港学者据此指出，香港的家庭价值已被削弱到了“临界点”。
Chen Zhangming (A member of Hong Kong family council, and chairman of elderly commission) believes that more and more young people are not willing to marry in Hong Kong, reflecting that the family values of Hong Kong have become fragmented. He said, I believe more and more people choosing not to marry has great connection with developed science and technology, and change of the model of economic and lifestyle, etc. Developed science and technology, and stressing privacy and personal rights make people lack of communication. While most people think that main reason of divorce is “affair”, followed by economic or life stress. Marriage and family counselor in Hong Kong catholic marriage advisory council Zheng Jingwen expresses that the young don’t know how to deal with conflict, when it comes to love, they only consider feel and have no idea of tolerance, patience, so it is difficult to maintain their relationship. Some youth bring this value into marriage, so their marriage is easier to rupture.
香港家庭议会成员、安老事务委员会主席陈章明认为，香港年轻人不愿意结婚的个案愈来愈多，反映港人家庭价值已变得支离破碎。他表示，相信愈来愈多港人选择不结婚，与科技发达、经济和生活模式改变等不无关系。科技发达，加上着重隐私等个人权益，令人与人之间缺乏沟通。而大部分人认为离婚主因是“婚外情”，其次是经济或生活压力。
香港公教婚姻辅导会婚姻及家庭辅导员郑静文表示，年轻人不太懂处理冲突，在爱情上只讲感觉，但未懂包容、忍耐，所以关系难以维持，有的青年把此价值观带到婚姻中，婚姻关系亦较容易破裂。
South Korea
韩国
South Korea is a very conservative country, in the past, people treat divorce as a quite shameful thing, not only lose face of herself, but lose face of parents, so it is hard to consider a divorce even the couple have a bad relationship. But since about 20 years before, women have been beginning to catch up with men in all fields, the voice of rights protection is also more and more high, then, many people choose to get divorce under the auspices of women, resulting in South Korea once is of the highest divorce rate among OCED countries.
韩国是一个十分传统保守的国家，以前人们一直把离婚看作是十分丢人的事情，不仅自己丢人，而且还给父母亲丢人，所以即便是夫妻俩再不合也很难考虑离婚。但是从大约20多年前起，女性逐渐开始在各个领域赶超男性，维权的呼声也是越来越高，于是在女权的主导下离婚开始大量出现，导致韩国曾经一度是经合组织成员国当中离婚率最高的一个国家。
Today, it is no longer a secretive thing to get divorced; many believe that though it is not worth advocating imprudent divorce, to keep a hopeless marriage is inadvisable. But whatever getting divorce is a big scar of life, therefore, people still need to carefully treat it.
In recent years, South Korea’s family has present a new characteristic, that is the divorce rate is higher in the elderly. According to a statistical results issued by the recent South Korean courthouses, people to get married for more than 20 years account for first of all the divorced people. That is to say, there is one couple of dusk divorce in every four divorced couples. For various reasons, once bearing suffering’s wife would rather spend the last time with herself than stoop to compromise.
如今，离婚在韩国已经不再是需要遮遮掩掩的事情了，很多人都认为轻率的离婚虽然不值得提倡，但是死守一个病入膏肓的婚姻更是不可取的。但无论如何，离婚都是人生的一大伤痕，因此人们依然还是十分慎重的。
近年来，韩国家庭呈现一个新的特点，就是老年人离婚率走高。按照不久前韩国大法院发表的一个统计结果显示，结婚20年以上的人的离婚占全体离婚的第一位，就是说，每四对离婚的夫妻当中就有一对是黄昏离婚。由于各种原因曾经忍气吞声一辈子的妻子宁愿在人生的最后时光自由快乐的自己度过，也不想再委曲求全。
America
美国
According to a research result by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center, in recent decades, American concepts of marriage and family is obviously changed, more and more people believe that a marriage contract is not necessary for a family, unmarried cohabitation is increasingly common. After the economic, social and political supporting marriage, the base of this kind of family pattern changes, the American marriage also inevitably evolved subsequently. Adrew Cherlin, a scholar who studies social problems in The Johns Hopkins University noticed a phenomenon: teen-age pregnancy is very common in the United States; the proportion has been close to 40% of the total number of marriage. Most of them have College degree, live together and less than 20 years. Cherlin said, the happening of this phenomenon have close relationship with American society becoming more inclusive: people no longer regarded it as a kind of eccentric phenomenon, but take this as a personal choice, just like Americans value privacy. Melton said: “today, marriage is a paper certificate. Without this certificate, People can also have a good family life.”
根据美国皮尤研究中心的研究结果显示，近几十年来，美国人的婚姻和家庭观念发生显著变化，越来越多的人认为一纸婚书并非组建家庭的必要条件，非婚同居现象愈发普遍。在经济、社会和政治等支撑婚姻这种家庭模式的基础出现变化之后，美国人的婚姻观也不可避免地随之演变。
美国约翰·霍普金斯大学研究社会问题的学者安德鲁·切林注意到一个现象：未婚先育的情况在美国的年轻情侣中十分普遍，其比例已经接近结婚总人数的40%。这些人大多具有大学学历，在一起同居，年龄在20岁上下。切林说，这种状况的出现与美国社会正在变得更加包容有密切关系：人们不再认为这是一种离经叛道的现象，而把这看成是个人的选择，就像美国人极为看重的隐私一样。梅尔顿说:“如今的婚姻就是一纸证书。没有这张证书，同样能把家庭生活过好。”
Statistics results recently released by the United States census bureau also showed that, currently, in the age of 18 or above, the marriage rate was only 52%, to a record low. In 2010, the number of unmarried cohabitation in the United States was 13% high than 2009, reaching 7.5 million. The reason of the large number except for changing of people’s marriage and family values, but also largely affected by the economic situation. People are often reluctant to make long-term marriage commitments owing to bad economy and unemployment.
As more and more partners’ premarital pregnancy, the situation of new mothers is also changing. In the past, the unmarried woman is mainly the poor without going to any school, now, a growing number of college or high school, and community full-time university women are joining their ranks. In recent years, there appeared a new saying “the thirty-year inch” in the United States, many elderly people over the age of 60, even more than 80-year-old couples also joined the ranks of divorce.
美国人口普查局最近公布的统计结果也显示，当前18周岁及以上的美国人结婚率只有52%，为历史最低点。2010年美国非婚同居人数比2009年大增13%，达到750万。这一数字增幅如此之大除了和人们婚姻和家庭观念的改变有关外，很大程度上也受到经济现状的影响。由于经济不景气、失业问题严重，人们往往不愿作出长期的婚姻承诺。
随着越来越多的伴侣未婚先育，初为人母的妇女的情况也在发生变化。以前，未婚先育的女方主要是没有上过任何学校的穷人，现在，越来越多的具有高中、社区大学或全日制大学的女性正在加入她们的行列。近年来，美国还出现了“30年之痒”一说，即许多60岁以上的老年人，甚至80多岁的老夫老妻也加入了离婚行列。
France: unmarried cohabitation is common
法国：未婚同居成普遍现象
According to the research report published by the French parliament on January 27, 2006, compared with the Early Stage of World War, the French family’s value and concept are undergoing a revolutionary change. In just two generations, the people to get married is less, to get divorced is more, and to live together is more causal. In 1970, there were 400000 couples to get married, but in 2005, there were only 280000, reducing 30%. According to statistics, in 2005, on average, the first marriage age is deferred 6 years than 1970, the male is 30.9 year and the female is 28.8. The report points out that the decrease of the number of marriage does not mean that French refuse to get married, but it points out that French treat marriage as a purely personal question increasingly. As a kind of social system, the status of marriage has fundamentally changed. Premarital cohabitation is no longer a choice for the minority of rash, rebellious young, but a common phenomenon of the whole society. In the early 70s of the last century, one sixth of the French couple live together first, then get married, now the proportion rose to nine over ten.
法国议会2006年1月27日公布的调研报告显示，与二战结束初期相比，法国人的家庭面貌和观念发生了革命性的变化。短短两代人的时间，法国人结婚的少了，离婚的多了，共同生活更随便了。1970年法国有40万对新人登记结婚，2005年只有28万对，减了30％。根据2005年的统计数字，法国人的平均初婚年龄比1970年晚了6年，男性为30.9岁、女性28.8岁。
报告称，婚姻数量减少并不意味着法国人拒绝婚姻，而是说明法国人越来越把结婚当作纯粹的个人问题。作为一种社会制度，婚姻的地位发生了根本变化。婚前同居不再是少数轻率、反叛的年轻人的选择，而是全社会的普遍现象。上个世纪70年代初，法国六分之一的新人先同居再结婚，如今这一比例上升到了十分之九。
Moreover, the number of divorce is increasing. Now in France, 42% of marriages end in divorce, greatly surpass 12% in the 70s. According to another statistics, the partners who started to live together from 1990, weather married or not, 15% of their relationship would not keep more than five years, and 30% after 10 years drifted apart.
Sociologist’s comment, the increase of the number of divorce does not mean that the French are irresponsible to marriage and partner, to some extent, this shows that the French are strict with mate, they don’t want to have a improvise marriage.
与此同时，法国人的离婚数量不断增加。如今法国42％的婚姻以离异告终，大大高于上个世纪70年代初的12％。另据统计，自1990年起开始共同生活的伴侣中，不论婚否，15％持续时间不超过5年，30％在10年后各奔东西。
社会学家对此的评论是，离婚数量增加并不意味着法国人对婚姻和伴侣不负责任，在某种程度上，这说明法国人对伴侣更加苛求，他们不愿意拥有凑合的婚姻。
Britain: marriage for 11 years would be a divorce season
英国：11年为离婚高发期
In recent years, it seems that the traditional-minded British also overturned the past outlook of marriage and value. The divorce rate is high, and the number of marriages are keep lowing. It seems that people are generally lost confidence in marriage. The UK national bureau of statistics data show that in 2005, it is about 155,000 couples got divorce in Britain, although dropped 7% compared with 2004, but this number still account for 50% of the number of married in the same year.
According to a survey, the average age of the men getting divorced is around 43 years old, female is 40 years old. It is a period of high incidence of divorce when the marriage keeps eleven and a half year .And the highest divorce rate in the successful women, with the constant improvement of the income and status; they are no longer satisfied with trivial family life, but looking forward to an independent life. 一贯注重传统的英国人近几年似乎也颠覆了以往的婚姻观和价值观，离婚率居高不下，而结婚人数却一直走低，人们似乎普遍失去了对婚姻的信心。英国国家统计局的数据显示，2005年英国大约有15.5万对夫妇离婚，虽然与2004年相比下降了7个百分点，但这个数字仍然占到同年结婚人数的50％。
据一项调查显示，男性离婚的平均年龄在43岁左右，女性为40岁。婚姻持续到11年半左右是离婚的高发时期。而成功女性中的离婚率最高，随着收入和地位的不断提高，她们不再满足于琐碎的家庭生活，期待一种独立的生活。
In addition, some celebrity family marriage breakdown and the media excessive publicity also have a great influence to the society. When seeing the end of a marriage, people will naturally think of their marriage, and think the same thing will happen on their own.
What’s more worrying is that, in England, there are some who suffers from divorce syndrome. In 155,000 couples divorced in 2005, nearly twenty percent of the people are not the first time to get divorced. After a failed marriage, their second, even third marriage is often not happy.
此外，一些名人家庭的婚姻破裂和媒体的过分宣传也给整个社会造成了很大的影响。当人们看到一段婚姻的结束，自然而然会联想到自己的婚姻生活，觉得同样的事情也会发生在自己的身上。
更令人担心的是，在英国有一部分人还患上了离婚综合症。2005年离婚的15.5万对夫妇中，有近两成的人已经不是第一次离婚了。在经历了一次失败的婚姻后，他们第二次，甚至第三次婚姻往往也是不幸福的。
中国
In the past, it is disgraceful to get divorced or to remarry for the Chinese women. But according to a new survey, the value of the Chinese family is gradually changing. Based on the development of social service statistical bulletin in 2013, issued by the Chinese ministry of civil affairs, in 2013, there were altogether 3.5 million couples got divorced according to law throughout the country, an increase of 12.8% over the last year, which is a decade of increasing divorce rate since 2004. According to the census results, issued by the Hong Kong SAR government, 2012, in Hong Kong, the single rate of marriageable population was clearly increasing. In the marriageable age stage of people ranging in age from 20 to 49, according to the census of 2001, male single rate rose to 46.8% from 39.3%, the women’s single rate rose to 38.9%from 34.0%. In recent 30 years, Hong Kong’s divorce rate rises 10 times, ranking ninth in the world. According to Hong Kong economic daily reports, a survey of visiting 2000 households found only sixty percent of the respondent think marriage is necessary for life, 64% of respondents feel great pressure to rear children; 45% of incumbents think it is difficult to balance family and job, which is increased dramatically compared with 25% three years ago. In addition, 57% of respondents believe that, for a couple who can’t live in harmony and have no children, getting a divorce is the best solution. Based on this, Some Hong Kong scholars have pointed out that the family values of Hong Kong have been weakened in the “breakthrough point”.
过去，中国妇女离婚、改嫁被视为一件不光彩的事。但是新近的调查发现，中国人的家庭价值观正在逐渐发生改变。据中国民政部发布的2013年社会服务发展统计公报显示，2013年全国依法办理离婚手续的共有350万对，比上年增长了12.8％，这是从2004年以来，中国离婚率连续10年递增。根据香港特区政府2012年公布的人口普查结果，香港适婚人口的单身率出现明显上升。在20岁至49岁这一适婚年龄阶段，男性单身率由2001年普查时的39.3%上升至46.8%，女性单身率则由34.0%上升至38.9%。近30年来，香港的离婚率骤升10倍，高居全球第九位。据香港《经济日报》报道，一项访问了2,000个住户的调查发现，仅六成受访者认为婚姻对人生有必要；64%受访者对养儿育女感到巨大压力；45%在职者认为家庭与工作间难以平衡，比3年前的25%大幅增加。另外，有57%的受访者认为，对于无法和谐共处而又没有子女的夫妻，接受离婚是最佳的解决方法。有香港学者据此指出，香港的家庭价值已被削弱到了“临界点”。
Chen Zhangming (A member of Hong Kong family council, and chairman of elderly commission) believes that more and more young people are not willing to marry in Hong Kong, reflecting that the family values of Hong Kong have become fragmented. He said, I believe more and more people choosing not to marry has great connection with developed science and technology, and change of the model of economic and lifestyle, etc. Developed science and technology, and stressing privacy and personal rights make people lack of communication. While most people think that main reason of divorce is “affair”, followed by economic or life stress. Marriage and family counselor in Hong Kong catholic marriage advisory council Zheng Jingwen expresses that the young don’t know how to deal with conflict, when it comes to love, they only consider feel and have no idea of tolerance, patience, so it is difficult to maintain their relationship. Some youth bring this value into marriage, so their marriage is easier to rupture.
香港家庭议会成员、安老事务委员会主席陈章明认为，香港年轻人不愿意结婚的个案愈来愈多，反映港人家庭价值已变得支离破碎。他表示，相信愈来愈多港人选择不结婚，与科技发达、经济和生活模式改变等不无关系。科技发达，加上着重隐私等个人权益，令人与人之间缺乏沟通。而大部分人认为离婚主因是“婚外情”，其次是经济或生活压力。
香港公教婚姻辅导会婚姻及家庭辅导员郑静文表示，年轻人不太懂处理冲突，在爱情上只讲感觉，但未懂包容、忍耐，所以关系难以维持，有的青年把此价值观带到婚姻中，婚姻关系亦较容易破裂。
South Korea
韩国
South Korea is a very conservative country, in the past, people treat divorce as a quite shameful thing, not only lose face of herself, but lose face of parents, so it is hard to consider a divorce even the couple have a bad relationship. But since about 20 years before, women have been beginning to catch up with men in all fields, the voice of rights protection is also more and more high, then, many people choose to get divorce under the auspices of women, resulting in South Korea once is of the highest divorce rate among OCED countries.
韩国是一个十分传统保守的国家，以前人们一直把离婚看作是十分丢人的事情，不仅自己丢人，而且还给父母亲丢人，所以即便是夫妻俩再不合也很难考虑离婚。但是从大约20多年前起，女性逐渐开始在各个领域赶超男性，维权的呼声也是越来越高，于是在女权的主导下离婚开始大量出现，导致韩国曾经一度是经合组织成员国当中离婚率最高的一个国家。
Today, it is no longer a secretive thing to get divorced; many believe that though it is not worth advocating imprudent divorce, to keep a hopeless marriage is inadvisable. But whatever getting divorce is a big scar of life, therefore, people still need to carefully treat it.
In recent years, South Korea’s family has present a new characteristic, that is the divorce rate is higher in the elderly. According to a statistical results issued by the recent South Korean courthouses, people to get married for more than 20 years account for first of all the divorced people. That is to say, there is one couple of dusk divorce in every four divorced couples. For various reasons, once bearing suffering’s wife would rather spend the last time with herself than stoop to compromise.
如今，离婚在韩国已经不再是需要遮遮掩掩的事情了，很多人都认为轻率的离婚虽然不值得提倡，但是死守一个病入膏肓的婚姻更是不可取的。但无论如何，离婚都是人生的一大伤痕，因此人们依然还是十分慎重的。
近年来，韩国家庭呈现一个新的特点，就是老年人离婚率走高。按照不久前韩国大法院发表的一个统计结果显示，结婚20年以上的人的离婚占全体离婚的第一位，就是说，每四对离婚的夫妻当中就有一对是黄昏离婚。由于各种原因曾经忍气吞声一辈子的妻子宁愿在人生的最后时光自由快乐的自己度过，也不想再委曲求全。
America
美国
According to a research result by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center, in recent decades, American concepts of marriage and family is obviously changed, more and more people believe that a marriage contract is not necessary for a family, unmarried cohabitation is increasingly common. After the economic, social and political supporting marriage, the base of this kind of family pattern changes, the American marriage also inevitably evolved subsequently. Adrew Cherlin, a scholar who studies social problems in The Johns Hopkins University noticed a phenomenon: teen-age pregnancy is very common in the United States; the proportion has been close to 40% of the total number of marriage. Most of them have College degree, live together and less than 20 years. Cherlin said, the happening of this phenomenon have close relationship with American society becoming more inclusive: people no longer regarded it as a kind of eccentric phenomenon, but take this as a personal choice, just like Americans value privacy. Melton said: “today, marriage is a paper certificate. Without this certificate, People can also have a good family life.”
根据美国皮尤研究中心的研究结果显示，近几十年来，美国人的婚姻和家庭观念发生显著变化，越来越多的人认为一纸婚书并非组建家庭的必要条件，非婚同居现象愈发普遍。在经济、社会和政治等支撑婚姻这种家庭模式的基础出现变化之后，美国人的婚姻观也不可避免地随之演变。
美国约翰·霍普金斯大学研究社会问题的学者安德鲁·切林注意到一个现象：未婚先育的情况在美国的年轻情侣中十分普遍，其比例已经接近结婚总人数的40%。这些人大多具有大学学历，在一起同居，年龄在20岁上下。切林说，这种状况的出现与美国社会正在变得更加包容有密切关系：人们不再认为这是一种离经叛道的现象，而把这看成是个人的选择，就像美国人极为看重的隐私一样。梅尔顿说:“如今的婚姻就是一纸证书。没有这张证书，同样能把家庭生活过好。”
Statistics results recently released by the United States census bureau also showed that, currently, in the age of 18 or above, the marriage rate was only 52%, to a record low. In 2010, the number of unmarried cohabitation in the United States was 13% high than 2009, reaching 7.5 million. The reason of the large number except for changing of people’s marriage and family values, but also largely affected by the economic situation. People are often reluctant to make long-term marriage commitments owing to bad economy and unemployment.
As more and more partners’ premarital pregnancy, the situation of new mothers is also changing. In the past, the unmarried woman is mainly the poor without going to any school, now, a growing number of college or high school, and community full-time university women are joining their ranks. In recent years, there appeared a new saying “the thirty-year inch” in the United States, many elderly people over the age of 60, even more than 80-year-old couples also joined the ranks of divorce.
美国人口普查局最近公布的统计结果也显示，当前18周岁及以上的美国人结婚率只有52%，为历史最低点。2010年美国非婚同居人数比2009年大增13%，达到750万。这一数字增幅如此之大除了和人们婚姻和家庭观念的改变有关外，很大程度上也受到经济现状的影响。由于经济不景气、失业问题严重，人们往往不愿作出长期的婚姻承诺。
随着越来越多的伴侣未婚先育，初为人母的妇女的情况也在发生变化。以前，未婚先育的女方主要是没有上过任何学校的穷人，现在，越来越多的具有高中、社区大学或全日制大学的女性正在加入她们的行列。近年来，美国还出现了“30年之痒”一说，即许多60岁以上的老年人，甚至80多岁的老夫老妻也加入了离婚行列。
France: unmarried cohabitation is common
法国：未婚同居成普遍现象
According to the research report published by the French parliament on January 27, 2006, compared with the Early Stage of World War, the French family’s value and concept are undergoing a revolutionary change. In just two generations, the people to get married is less, to get divorced is more, and to live together is more causal. In 1970, there were 400000 couples to get married, but in 2005, there were only 280000, reducing 30%. According to statistics, in 2005, on average, the first marriage age is deferred 6 years than 1970, the male is 30.9 year and the female is 28.8. The report points out that the decrease of the number of marriage does not mean that French refuse to get married, but it points out that French treat marriage as a purely personal question increasingly. As a kind of social system, the status of marriage has fundamentally changed. Premarital cohabitation is no longer a choice for the minority of rash, rebellious young, but a common phenomenon of the whole society. In the early 70s of the last century, one sixth of the French couple live together first, then get married, now the proportion rose to nine over ten.
法国议会2006年1月27日公布的调研报告显示，与二战结束初期相比，法国人的家庭面貌和观念发生了革命性的变化。短短两代人的时间，法国人结婚的少了，离婚的多了，共同生活更随便了。1970年法国有40万对新人登记结婚，2005年只有28万对，减了30％。根据2005年的统计数字，法国人的平均初婚年龄比1970年晚了6年，男性为30.9岁、女性28.8岁。
报告称，婚姻数量减少并不意味着法国人拒绝婚姻，而是说明法国人越来越把结婚当作纯粹的个人问题。作为一种社会制度，婚姻的地位发生了根本变化。婚前同居不再是少数轻率、反叛的年轻人的选择，而是全社会的普遍现象。上个世纪70年代初，法国六分之一的新人先同居再结婚，如今这一比例上升到了十分之九。
Moreover, the number of divorce is increasing. Now in France, 42% of marriages end in divorce, greatly surpass 12% in the 70s. According to another statistics, the partners who started to live together from 1990, weather married or not, 15% of their relationship would not keep more than five years, and 30% after 10 years drifted apart.
Sociologist’s comment, the increase of the number of divorce does not mean that the French are irresponsible to marriage and partner, to some extent, this shows that the French are strict with mate, they don’t want to have a improvise marriage.
与此同时，法国人的离婚数量不断增加。如今法国42％的婚姻以离异告终，大大高于上个世纪70年代初的12％。另据统计，自1990年起开始共同生活的伴侣中，不论婚否，15％持续时间不超过5年，30％在10年后各奔东西。
社会学家对此的评论是，离婚数量增加并不意味着法国人对婚姻和伴侣不负责任，在某种程度上，这说明法国人对伴侣更加苛求，他们不愿意拥有凑合的婚姻。
Britain: marriage for 11 years would be a divorce season
英国：11年为离婚高发期
In recent years, it seems that the traditional-minded British also overturned the past outlook of marriage and value. The divorce rate is high, and the number of marriages are keep lowing. It seems that people are generally lost confidence in marriage. The UK national bureau of statistics data show that in 2005, it is about 155,000 couples got divorce in Britain, although dropped 7% compared with 2004, but this number still account for 50% of the number of married in the same year.
According to a survey, the average age of the men getting divorced is around 43 years old, female is 40 years old. It is a period of high incidence of divorce when the marriage keeps eleven and a half year .And the highest divorce rate in the successful women, with the constant improvement of the income and status; they are no longer satisfied with trivial family life, but looking forward to an independent life. 一贯注重传统的英国人近几年似乎也颠覆了以往的婚姻观和价值观，离婚率居高不下，而结婚人数却一直走低，人们似乎普遍失去了对婚姻的信心。英国国家统计局的数据显示，2005年英国大约有15.5万对夫妇离婚，虽然与2004年相比下降了7个百分点，但这个数字仍然占到同年结婚人数的50％。
据一项调查显示，男性离婚的平均年龄在43岁左右，女性为40岁。婚姻持续到11年半左右是离婚的高发时期。而成功女性中的离婚率最高，随着收入和地位的不断提高，她们不再满足于琐碎的家庭生活，期待一种独立的生活。
In addition, some celebrity family marriage breakdown and the media excessive publicity also have a great influence to the society. When seeing the end of a marriage, people will naturally think of their marriage, and think the same thing will happen on their own.
What’s more worrying is that, in England, there are some who suffers from divorce syndrome. In 155,000 couples divorced in 2005, nearly twenty percent of the people are not the first time to get divorced. After a failed marriage, their second, even third marriage is often not happy.
此外，一些名人家庭的婚姻破裂和媒体的过分宣传也给整个社会造成了很大的影响。当人们看到一段婚姻的结束，自然而然会联想到自己的婚姻生活，觉得同样的事情也会发生在自己的身上。
更令人担心的是，在英国有一部分人还患上了离婚综合症。2005年离婚的15.5万对夫妇中，有近两成的人已经不是第一次离婚了。在经历了一次失败的婚姻后，他们第二次，甚至第三次婚姻往往也是不幸福的。