Survey Reveals What Makes a Chinese Mother-in-Law Really Love You

Survey Reveals What Makes a Chinese Mother-in-Law Really Love You
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Winning over a Chinese mother-in-law might just be one of the hardest things to do in life, but a new survey has shed some light on what makes the in-laws warm up to you -- and it’s mostly good news for guys.

March 27, 2015
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Winning over a Chinese mother-in-law might just be one of the hardest things to do in life, but a new survey has shed some light on what makes the in-laws warm up to you — and it’s mostly good news for guys.
Chinese consulting firm Horizon conducted a study that included 4,656 households in 36 Chinese cities to look at the influence in-laws have over marriages. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the study found that mother-in-laws love son-in-laws no matter what, especially if they make lots of money or work for the government.
Only 3.7% of son-in-laws had complaints about their mother-in-laws, while 71.7% said they received “care” from their in-laws.
When it comes to jobs and feeling “support” from the mother-in-law, 70.4% of men with low-paying jobs felt supported; 71.2% of middle-class workers also felt the same, and of course, 80.8% of wealthy husbands were definitely supported. Unemployed men weren’t included in the statistics because clearly no mother would support that kind of marriage.
The most favored child-in-laws were managerial workers for state-owned companies, which had the highest mother-in-law approval ratings (76.2% for men, 75% for women) among all other professions.
Unfortunately for most women, however, mother-in laws are particularly protective of their sons.
Only 64.6% of the wives surveyed said they were able to get along with their mother-in-law. Around 62.2% of working women with low-paying jobs felt supported by their in-laws; 65.7% of women with middle class jobs and 70.5% of wealthy wives felt their mother-in-laws approved and supported them. It would seem then that a wealthy wife is valued about the same as a husband with a low-paying job. When it came to stay-at-home wives, aka unemployed, only 62.5% were able to get along with their mother-in-laws.
Are Chinese mothers shallow? Possibly. Do women with Chinese in-laws have it harder? Absolutely.
You’d think that a country that has over 50 million less women than men would consider women a little more important, but ancient cultures die hard.
Source: Shanghaiist
 
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      Sarah Lesnar is a recent graduate at USC. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and loves to write every moment she gets. Aside from her passion in writing, she also loves her cats Sam and Minka.

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