Chinese Universities Lack a Course About Family Education
Abstract
China’s total fertility rate declined to 1.30, the lowest level in the record, as demonstrated by China’s seventh national census data in 2020. This figure indicates that China has been among the countries with “a quite low fertility rate”, classified by the international academic community. China’s society has encountered a small tidal wave of “feminism” over the past decade, during which people dare to reflect and discuss the traditional Chinese concept of love and marriage on a larger scale, and the popularization and revelation of fertility-related topics more emerge. How- ever, these trends have also aggravated the phenomenon of “gender antagonism”, “fear of mar- riage and childbearing” and “non-marriage and infertility” among young Chinese people. As China is in the stage of social transformation, the involution is pervasive in various fields, and the rate of national anxiety remains high. These negative social phenomena are deeply related to the traditional Chinese education system.References
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