With everyone placed into quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, one has to wonder what will be the by product of all this self-isolation time. We’ve joked that the coronavirus quarantine will result in a baby boom and a music boom, but it appears the reality is a bit more depressing as couples and those in relationships are more likely to break up (or divorce) than make a baby.
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As China is slowly emerging from its coronavirus quarantine and getting back to some semblance or normality, it seems like all that time being stuck in the same house has taken a toll on couples and those in relationships as divorce and break up rates are spiking across the country.
According to Bloomberg, the divorce rates in the Chinese cities of Xian, Dazhou, Miluo and Shanghai have risen dramatically in March as the end of the coronavirus quarantine loomed, which flies in the face of the baby boom China was hoping for.
Apparently an increasing amount of Chinese couples began experiencing relationship troubles the more time they spent together in self-isolation as all the usual annoying things (not enough “me time,” not evenly splitting responsibilities, spending too much time playing with Lego instead of looking after the kids, etc) began rapidly piling up, so much so that people couldn’t tolerate each other any more and decided to split up instead.
This whole post-coronavirus quarantine divorce/break up spike between couples shouldn’t be a surprise to no one as spending almost every minute with someone is a good way to gauge just how strong (or weak) a relationship is.
There is a silver lining in this though as the coronavirus quarantine has unfortunately resulted in a rise in domestic violence cases in China. Hopefully the spike in divorces and break-ups will act as a sort of remedy to this awful trend.
So what does this mean for us in Australia and other Western countries? Well hopefully not much but it does act as a warning that the time spent together during the coronavirus quarantine may not necessarily be all good, and we shouldn’t be surprised if break-ups and divorces spike when our own self-isolation is over.
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