In law, the minimum marriage age for marriageable young people is 22 years old for boys and 20 years old for girls, and young people who are not married beyond the legal marriage age are in the stage of late marriage and late childbearing. Therefore, boys over 22 years old and girls over 20 years old are married and late childbearing. However, in the eyes of the public, boys start to enter the stage of late marriage and late childbearing after the age of 25 and girls after the age of 23.
How old is the age of late marriage and late childbearing
Article 6 of the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that "the age of marriage shall not be earlier than 22 years for men and 20 years for women." Therefore, the age of late marriage is as long as it is greater than the prescribed marriage age, and as long as it is later than the legal date, it is late marriage.
China's marriage law does not specify the age of late marriage. In real life, people usually think that the first marriage at the age of 25 for men and 23 for women is a late marriage. The late marriage age is different from the legal marriage age, it is not mandatory, but only encourage sex, promote sex marriage age.
Generally, those who marry late and have children meet the conditions of late childbearing.
There are no relevant laws and regulations in China to specify the age of late childbearing. Some provinces require that as long as the child is over 23 years old, it is a late childbearing, and some provinces require that the child is over 24 years old. It must be implemented in accordance with local policies.
Second, the role of late marriage and late childbearing policy
The policy of late marriage and late childbearing was once one of the important contents of the family planning policy, and the implementation of the policy of late marriage and late childbearing has three functions in population control:
1, shorten the fertility period of women, is conducive to reducing the number of births;
2, lengthening the interval between the two generations, relatively reducing the number of people living at the same time;
3. It is conducive to improving the quality of the population.
However, with the full implementation of the two-child policy from January 1, 2016, actively carrying out actions to cope with the aging population, and not implementing the policy of late marriage and late childbearing, the relevant provisions such as late marriage and late childbearing incentive leave have been cancelled.