Cooling-Off Period Before Divorce in China: Violating Women’s Rights or Reducing Divorce Rates?

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10.2991/978-2-38476-551-5_106How to use a DOI?

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cooling-off period before divorce; feminism; freedom of marriage

Abstract

The cooling-off period before divorce, more commonly referred to on Chinese social network platforms, especially Sina Weibo, has been a controversial topic among Chinese citizens for several years. However, there have been no controlled studies about how to determine, depending on the circumstances, whether both sides of the couple want to divorce, which is the key to ensuring the scope of the cold period. Actually, the main activist group speaking out against the period is social network users who continuously claim to disagree with the Internet channels. In detail, this paper is going to analyse the feminist arguments on the Weibo platform about the “cooling-off period before divorce” before its publication for a month-long period.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zifeng Zhang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/26
TI  - Cooling-Off Period Before Divorce in China: Violating Women’s Rights or Reducing Divorce Rates?
BT  - Proceeding of 2025 8th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 982
EP  - 987
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-551-5_106
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-551-5_106
ID  - Zhang2026
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