{"id":71950,"date":"2018-06-07T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71950"},"modified":"2018-06-06T19:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T23:23:04","slug":"nprs-marketplace-the-business-of-dealing-with-chinas-cheating-husbands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71950","title":{"rendered":"(NPR&#8217;s Marketplace) The business of dealing with China&#8217;s cheating husbands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dai\u2019s charges can add up to more than $150,000 for two months of work, which is far more than what he could earn as a high school graduate in his hometown in eastern Jiangsu province. Wives of wealthy men are willing to pay his fees because China\u2019s divorce law favors the man and divorce is still a major stigma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can affect your children. They will be less desirable as marriage candidates,\u201d Dai said.<\/p>\n<p>There is no guarantee of success in marriage dissuading. Dai said only 50 percent of his cases work out. He refers to the mistress as a \u201ccancer in the marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are merely doing an external surgery. Whether the marriage can be saved depends on the couple,\u201d Dai said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2018\/05\/28\/world\/business-dealing-chinas-cheating-husbands\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dai\u2019s charges can add up to more than $150,000 for two months of work, which is far more than what he could earn as a high school graduate in his hometown in eastern Jiangsu province. Wives of wealthy men are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71950\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,175,502,168,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-china","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71952,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71950\/revisions\/71952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}