Household composition and extended kinship in Taiwan
Most Taiwanese couples of childbearing age have lived in extended households, if the husband's parents were alive and in Taiwan when the marriage began. Such extended families predominantly involve the patrilineal and vertical ties to the husband's parents. Couples who are living in nuclea...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Population studies 1977-03, Vol.XXX1 (1), p.65-80 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Most Taiwanese couples of childbearing age have lived in extended households, if the husband's parents were alive and in Taiwan when the marriage began. Such extended families predominantly involve the patrilineal and vertical ties to the husband's parents. Couples who are living in nuclear units often have the filial obligation fulfilled by co-residence of the husband's parents with his married brother. A very large majority of husband's parents are living with a married son. Among couples in a nuclear household, large numbers maintain a relationship with the husband's parents by visits and by giving them money. The proportion of households which were nuclear increased between 1965 and 1973, but this change was small compared with changes in reproductive behaviour or a variety of modernization indices. Traditional familial structures apparently are consistent, at least in the short run, with rapid demographic and economic change. Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd. |
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ISSN: | 0032-4728 |