Marriage form and age at first marriage: A comparative study in three counties in contemporary rural China

Jin, Xingming; Li, Shuzhuo; Feldman, Marcus W.

doi:10.1080/19485565.2002.9989097

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“…This effect in older cohorts could be due to the fact that traditionally, rural Chinese women married earlier in life than urban women, and thus commenced sexual activity earlier. This effect could be diminishing now as rural women marry later [24] and as urban women havemore risky and earlier sexual activity, including sexual partners before marriage, a trend which our data show is true for both urban and rural dwellers but is stronger among urbanites (see Table, Supplementary Digital Content 2). Thus, two modern trends combined with traditional patterns have resulted in a similar age of sexual debut among young cohorts of rural and urban Chinese women.…”

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A multi-center survey of age of sexual debut and sexual behavior in Chinese women: Suggestions for optimal age of human papillomavirus vaccination in China

Zhao

Tiggelaar

et al. 2012

Cancer Epidemiology

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Objective Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide, and over 85% of cervical cancers occur in developing countries such as China. Lack of resources for nationwide cervical cancer screening in China makes vaccination against oncogenic strains of HPV particularly important. Knowledge of age at sexual debut and sexual behavior is essential prior to implementation of a national vaccination program. Methods and materials A cross-sectional epidemiologic survey was conducted across 21 urban and rural sites in China to assess age at sexual debut and sexual behavior. 98.6% of the 11,852 recruited women aged 15–59 years were included in the analysis. Data were collected using a short, nurse-administered questionnaire and analyzed using standard descriptive statistics and survival analysis. Results In urban areas, more than ten percent of the 15–19 year old age group were already sexually active at the time of interview; this number increased to nearly 44% in the 20–24 year old age group. Chinese young women with an occupation were more likely to be sexually active compared to female students of the same age, irrespective of area of residence. The crude median sexual debut age for the youngest age group was 17 years, earlier than the sexual debut age reported by older cohorts. Younger age cohorts had an earlier menarche age than older cohorts and were more likely to have more sexual partners than older women, and more likely to have partners with more than one female partner. Conclusion There is a trend towards earlier sexual debut and riskier sexual behaviors in younger age groups of Chinese women. These findings suggest that HPV vaccination of women between the ages of 13 and 15 years, before the completion of national compulsory education, is likely to contribute to the prevention of HPV infection and cervical cancer in China.

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confidence: 76%

A multi-center survey of age of sexual debut and sexual behavior in Chinese women: Suggestions for optimal age of human papillomavirus vaccination in China

Zhao

Tiggelaar

et al. 2012

Cancer Epidemiology

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“…Women's likelihood of first marriage is much higher than that of men, irrespective of entry type. This gap is partially due to the excess number of men in the marriage market (Poston and Glover 2005) as well as the difficulty experienced by poor and low-educated men in rural areas in finding a marriage partner (Jin, Li, and Feldman 2005). To test whether our results are robust, we estimated the competing risks of first marriage entry types through the model of Fine and Gray (1999).…”

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Entry into first marriage in China

Ma¹,

Rizzi²

2017

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“…The preference of family patterns is one of the aspects of family socio-cultural values and its practices that may affect early marriage pattern across the cultures. Family sociologists and anthropologists broadly classify family pattern into three groups: nuclear, extended and joint that are the protective or risk factors of age at first marriage in a given culture ( Jin et al, 2003;Skinner, 1997). It is protective in the sense every man acquires social values from the family of orientation (a family unit in which someone is born as a son and daughter and is reared), and then he or she forms his own family of procreation (a family unit formed by…”

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Family socio-cultural values affecting early marriage between Muslim and Santal communities in rural Bangladesh

Uddin

2015

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Purpose – Family socio-cultural values and its practices have pervasive effects on early age at first marriage in every society. The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare how family socio-cultural values and its practices exert effect on early age at first marriage between Muslim and Santal couples in rural Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – First of all through snow-ball process and checking of marriage documents the author carefully identified 598 couples from Muslim and 560 from Santal who were married the first time between 1995 and 2005 years and whose age range was 12-48 years for husbands and 10-45 years for wives. Then, 585 pairs of couples (295 for Muslim and 290 for Santal) were randomly selected from the Talonda of Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. Data were collected, applying interview method with semi-structural questionnaire in family setting. Then the collected data were analyzed, using χ2 test and binary logistic regression (BLR) technique. Findings – The frequency distribution showed that most of the Santal couples compared to the Muslim ones were married before the minimum legal age in Bangladesh. The results of χ2 test of the frequency distribution were significant at p<0.01 and p<0.05 level. In addition, results of BLR analysis suggested that early age at first marriage was significantly (p<0.01 and p<0.05) associated with family socio-cultural values studied. It is argued that ethnicity, family pattern, residence pattern, illiteracy and ascriptive occupational status were the risk factors to persist early marriage among the Santal couples than the Muslim ones in rural Bangladesh. Practical implications – Although the findings are suggestive to understand differences in early marriage associated with family socio-cultural values between the ethnic couples, further cross-cultural study should be conducted on how socio-psychological factors affect early marriage between the ethnic groups. In spite of the limitations these findings may have implications in comparative social policy practice to prevent early marriage associated with changes in family socio-cultural values between the ethnic groups in Bangladesh. Originality/value – The findings in the paper are original in linking between family socio-cultural theory, its related policy and practice to prevent early marriage between the ethnic couples in Bangladesh.

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Marriage form and age at first marriage: A comparative study in three counties in contemporary rural China

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

A multi-center survey of age of sexual debut and sexual behavior in Chinese women: Suggestions for optimal age of human papillomavirus vaccination in China

A multi-center survey of age of sexual debut and sexual behavior in Chinese women: Suggestions for optimal age of human papillomavirus vaccination in China

Entry into first marriage in China

Family socio-cultural values affecting early marriage between Muslim and Santal communities in rural Bangladesh

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