China’s Divorce Spike Warning to Locked-Down World
Bloomberg’s QuickTake series produced this item which tells of a spike in divorces around the Covid-19 lockdown in China. They couch this as a “warning” that the rest of the locked-down world should take account of.
Although China publishes nationwide statistics on divorce only annually, media reports from various cities show uncouplings surged in March as husbands and wives began emerging from weeks of government-mandated lockdowns intended to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. #Coronavirus #Covid19 #China #Divorce
Incidents of domestic violence also multiplied. The trend may be an ominous warning for couples in the U.S. and elsewhere who are in the early stages of isolating at home: If absence makes the heart grow fonder, the opposite might be true of too much time spent together in close quarters.
QuickTake by Bloomberg
Commentators have already talked about domestic violence and other outcomes of families who aren’t necessarily on great terms being forced to be together 24/7 at a time of high stress.
Clearly, if these Chinese statistics are reflective of a trend, we may expect to see a small bump in divorces and separations in other places which are locking down for novel coronavirus.
What do you think? Do lockdowns under these circumstances bring us closer together, or drive us apart? Leave a moderated, public comment, below.
