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This research chooses seven mature and unmarried females ranked from 30 to 40 years old to be the samples and explores the content of their marital viewpoints by interview. The research can show mature and unmarried females’ true opinions toward the meaning of marriage, attitudes of mate selection and roles of marriage. For mature and unmarried females, the research finds they divided the meaning of marriage into some aspects such as society, psychology, biology, law, economy, and so on. The meaning of marriage in social aspects is not only to follow social norms but also to doubt the necessity of marriage. The meaning of marriage in psychological aspects is not only to confirm support of marital affection but also to think that marriage doesn’t insure happiness. The meaning of marriage in biological aspects is to breed the coming generation in order to compose a whole family. But it is powerless to bring up children. Satisfaction of sexual need is not necessarily by marriage. In law aspects, marriage is an indication about love and confirms offspring’s legal status. But mature and unmarried females think that the confirmation can’t keep forever. In economic aspects, although mature and unmarried females expect better life, they think that marriage causes an obstacle to females’ job and worry about the worse quality of living after marriage. As a whole, mature and unmarried females’ opinions about the meaning of marriage are negative and pessimistic. In aspects of mate selection, mature and unmarried females’ viewpoints of marriage can be mainly divided into attitudes to mate selection and cognition of personal conditions. In attitudes of mate selection, they identify the pair‘s model of “men’s achievement is high and women’s achievement is low. Besides, they emphasize male’s economic ability and mental agreement with males. In cognition of personal conditions, educational background and economic ability make them feel confident. With increase in age gradually, limitation of marital age comes from conditions of breeding. Foreign spouses can’t be chosen by mature and unmarried females. In the position of sexual role, due to have economic ability, mature and unmarried females’ status in the original family gets promotion, but still agree with the basic principle, “Husbands works outside, and wives stay at home”. However, Females’ status in the family doesn’t get promotion
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