An increasing number of Chinese couples from single child families, grown up under dotting parents' excessive care, are divorcing faster as they are struck by a 'love perplexity', the state media reported.

The children born in China in the late 1970s and early 1980s from the one-child generation have reached marriageable age now.

A survey conducted in northeast China's Liaoning Province, covering 162 families of the first single-child generation, reveals that nearly 25 per cent of those with both couples from the single-child generation have ended up in divorce, and the divorce rate of those with one of the couples from the single-child generation has reached 8.4 per cent, China News Service reported.

The single child in China has grown up under excessive care from dotting parents. Thus they are actually searching for a shelter while searching for love.

For example, most young men are looking for "motherly bosoms" while young women are longing for a "strong shoulder like a father", the survey found.

"Most of my friends got married one day and divorced the next. They went back to work immediately after the wedding ceremony, and seldom disputed over properties after divorce," Yan Ting who belongs to the first single-child generation, said.

The first single-child generation are much less tolerant than their parents, which is one of the factors causing instability to their marriage.