In mid-February 2006,
A murder case occurred in Pingyang Village, Donghai Town, Putian City, Fujian Province: Zhu killed his wife Zhu Xiumei with a bench. Because of Zhu Xiumei's "child bride" status, this criminal case is unusual. As a result, a "child bride" village gradually surfaced. It is understood that Zhu was born in 1974 and graduated from 1993 Xianyou Normal School. Later, he taught in Li Jing Primary School and served as the teaching director of the school. His wife Zhu Xiumei was born in 1978. In March 2006, the reporter met the suspect Zhu in Putian No.2 Detention Center.
Zhu said that Zhu Xiumei was taken to his home as a "child bride" four days after her birth. They were brother and sister before marriage, but they often quarreled after marriage. Zhu believes that many "child brides" in the village are married only for life and reproduction, and there is no emotion at all. He said that it was an open matter that their relationship was bad, so they had an affair. "Last year, my mother once asked me if their relationship really couldn't last, so she would get a divorce. But at that time, influenced by traditional ideas, I always felt sorry for my parents and wanted to maintain this family. " Zhu said that he would never kill her if she was his freely chosen lover. I really regret that I married her, and both of them became victims of the freak "child bride". According to Zeng Jinqing, the principal of the primary school, Zhu is the backbone of the school. He did well in school, but he was introverted and didn't have much contact with people at ordinary times. After the accident, no one believed it at first.
A village has nearly a thousand "child brides".
President Wu of Pingyang Primary School told the reporter that girls in the village wanted to marry outside because of traffic congestion and economic backwardness in the village. In order to solve the problem that young men can't marry wives, villagers go to other places to adopt girls as "child brides". Most of the "child brides" come from Changle, Minhou and other places in Fuzhou. There are more than 900 families in Pingyang village, almost every family has a "child bride", and there are nearly a thousand "child brides" in the village. The reporter interviewed four old people in the village. Three old people have adopted two "child brides" at home. Old Zhu said that most families in the village adopted "child brides", ranging from three or four to one or two. As I have two sons, I adopted two "child brides". The oldest child bride married her eldest son and gave birth to a child. The younger child bride left after marrying her youngest son for three years, and her whereabouts are still unknown.
The reporter made a survey in Li Jing primary school. There are 60 sixth-grade students and 33 girls, including child bride 14, accounting for 42.4% of the total number of girls. There are 63 fifth-grade students and 3/kloc-0 girls, including 7 "child brides", accounting for 22.6% of the total number of girls. President Zeng Jinqing said that "child brides" are also very common in Lingchuan town, and about 10% of the girls in the village are "child brides". But the young "child bride" may not necessarily marry her "brother" in the future, because times are different after all.
How to solve the problem of "child bride"
How to treat the contemporary "child bride" problem? The reporter interviewed relevant departments and experts. Experts believe that it should be clear that the contemporary "child bride" is essentially different from the "child bride" in the old society. In the old society, the emergence of "child bride" was mainly because many families were in abject poverty and could not raise their children, while the phenomenon of "child bride" in Pingyang Village was mainly due to the prejudice of "selling" children, and it was difficult to find a wife because the area where children were adopted was remote. Moreover, in 20 10, there was basically no abuse and abuse of "child bride" in the old society, and many families took care of "child bride".
However, many experts expressed indignation at the phenomenon of "child bride". Guo Yan, deputy director of the Rights and Interests Department of Fujian Women's Federation, said that the phenomenon of "child bride" seriously violated the relevant provisions of the Marriage Law on freedom of marriage, infringed on the rights and interests of women and children, and undermined human nature. Grassroots organizations should strengthen the education of "child brides", especially unmarried "child brides", and encourage their marriage autonomy. As a "child bride", you should control your own destiny, and don't repay the kindness of raising with the happiness of your life.
Legal experts define the problem of "child bride" as "black adoption". Dānlín, director of the Research Department of Fujian Law Society, believes that the Adoption Law stipulates that except for orphans, disabled children or abandoned babies and children raised by social welfare institutions who cannot find their biological parents, adopters must have no biological children and can only adopt one child, and register with the civil affairs departments at or above the county level. This "black adoption" in Pingyang Village will bring many problems. For example, the adopter has carefully raised the "child bride", but the "child bride" has no legal obligation to raise. Some "child brides" have fulfilled their obligations to support their adopters when they are old, but they can't participate in inheritance in law.
However, the relevant government departments seem to be somewhat passive on this issue. Chen Qingshui, secretary of the Party Committee of Donghai Town, believes that the problem of "child bride" in Pingyang Village is a problem left over from history. Many "child brides" are free to fall in love, but some of them will marry their "brothers" in return for their upbringing. We have no right to interfere in this, as long as they verbally express their willingness, we will go through the marriage formalities for them.
Experts believe that the root of the phenomenon of "child bride" is the backward local economy, so to solve this problem, we must develop the economy. Yan Zheng, president of Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, said that with the development of economy, if girls are willing to get married, this problem will be solved. It is imperative that the whole society should pay attention to this special group and try its best to help the "child bride" find her biological parents. For some unmarried "child brides", we should encourage them to fall in love freely, otherwise there will be a tragedy like Zhu Xiumei.