Changes and Trends in Family Structure in Taiwan, 1990 to 2010

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (14) ◽  
pp. 1896-1911
Author(s):  
Ying-Ting Wang ◽  
Wen-Shan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Marriage Rate ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Household Type ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Family

Taiwan has experienced significant demographic changes since the late 20th century, including decreasing fertility rate, increasing life expectancy, postponement of marriage and childbearing, reduced marriage rate, and rise in divorce. These demographic trends are likely to change the family structure. The objective of this article is to describe and summarize the changes in family structure between 1990 and 2010 in Taiwan using the Population and Housing Census data. During this period, the average household size decreased from 4.1 to 3.0 persons per household. Also, the share of couple households with unmarried children decreased by 15.1%, and the share of single-person households increased by 8.6%. Nuclear-family households, though they became less common, remained the dominant household type. Single-person households surpassed stem-family households as the second most common household type in 2000 and 2010. Households that are at greater risk of economic hardship, such as single-parent households and skipped-generation households, also increased their respective share during this period.

Skilsmisse og bolig - hvor flytter hjemfølelsen hen?

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Kirsten Gram-Hanssen ◽  
Claus Bech-Danielsen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Positive Experiences

Bolig, familieliv og hjemfølelse er historisk og kulturelt tæt knyttet sammen. I denne artikel er vi derfor interesseret i, hvad der sker med forholdet til boligen og med hjemfølelsen, når familien går i opløsning, og en eller begge parter flytter i forbindelse med en skilsmisse. Artiklen rummer dels en teoretisk introduktion til den internationale teori vedrørende bolig og hjemfølelse, dels en analyse af kvalitative interview med fraskilte om deres praktiske og følelsesmæssige forhold til deres bolig og hjem før og efter skilsmissen. Analysen peger på, at de følelsesmæssige bånd til en familiebolig kan forsvinde i dét øjeblik, beslutningen om en skilsmisse er truffet. Det praktiske arbejde med at etablere og indrette et nyt hjem kan blive en vigtig måde at søge ny identitet som enlig, og problemer med at finde et sted at bo, og deraf følgende midlertidige boliger, kan derfor gøre livet efter skilsmissen ekstra svært. Undersøgelsen peger endvidere på, at til trods for at mange fraskilte oplever det positivt at bo alene i en periode, så lever drømmen om kernefamilie og familiebolig videre. De fleste interviewpersoner giver således udtryk for, at de forestiller sig, at de på et tidspunkt etablerer en ny familiebolig med en ny partner. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Kirsten Gram-Hanssen & Claus Bech-Danielsen: Divorce and Housing: Where does the Feeling of Being Home Move? House and home are historically and culturally closely connected to family life. In this article we investigate the ways in which the housing situation and the feeling of home are affected by divorce – when some or all members of the family move out of the matrimonial house. The article is based on an international literature review on the meaning of housing and home and on qualitative interviews of four men and five women in Denmark who were interviewed about their experiences with housing and home while being divorced. The article points out that emotional relations to the matrimonial house may disappear at the very moment the decision is made to divorce. It also points out that the practical work of creating a new home can play an important role in the process finding a new identity as a single parent. Many people find that life after being divorced is very difficult, when problems in finding a new house result in a number of temporary housing situations. Finally it is stressed that, even though many divorcees have positive experiences living alone, they never give up the dream of the nuclear family. Most of the interviewees picture themselves living in a new matrimonial house with a future partner. Key words: Housing, home, divorce, family, qualitative interviews.

Reflections on Entitlement to a Child in Australian Women's Journals 1947–1987

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet Harper
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Unmarried Mothers ◽  
Alternative Type ◽  
Illegitimate Children ◽  
Women's Journals

In the Macquarie Dictionary, a family is defined as “parents and their children, whether dwelling together or not”. To be a couple with no children puts one outside of this category when family is defined in that way. Indeed, it is only recently that the term “single parent family” has been coined and accepted as an alternative type of family structure. Prior to the seventies the reference was to the “single mother and her child” and earlier still, “unmarried mothers” and “illegitimate children” — “fillius nullis”, child of nobody, until the Children's Equality of Status Act in 1977.Society still appears to hold the nuclear family as the ideal2 that is a male and a female, preferably married with one or more children. A couple remain a couple and are not considered a family until such time as they have a child. For those who wish to have a child but are unable to have one, this constitutes a painful situation, but one towards which society feels compassion and in the view of the author, supports the notion that couples are entitled to a child.

scholarly journals Globalization Influence on Alternative Trajectories to Family Formation in Africa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olusola Ayandele ◽  
Olugbenga A Popoola
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Family Structures

Family is the most basic institution of society with several socialization functions. Previously, the traditional “normative” family in Africa was a large household made-up of the extended family. Later, globalization processes led to the institutionalization of the nuclear family arrangement as the “typical” married-couple family setting. Currently, the agents of globalization have popularized and made single-parent families (having child/children without being married), and a two-parent cohabiting family (living with one’s partner without being married) lost some social stigma in many African societies. Single-parenthood and cohabitation are becoming “trendy” family structure in many African societies. Guided by the structural functionalism approach, the influence of globalization on the African family structure was discussed. Data from Demographic Health Surveys, World Family Map and various studies from some sub-Saharan African countries were used to examine the prevalence of the married-couple, cohabiting-couple, and single-parent family structures. Since the family is the most prominent family structure in Africa, the society, governmental and non-governmental agencies, education and religious institutions, as well as clinical and social services, should be attuned to the currently diverse “new normal” family systems to ensure that families thrive.

scholarly journals Changes in Family Structure in Latvia: trends and challenges

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanta Millere ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Risk Category ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Single Parent Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Qualitative Changes

Nowadays, we can observe various changes in family structure, which lead to the need to change the traditional understanding of the family. These changes can be explained by the prevalence of the globalization process in society, which have affected almost all spheres of life, including the family institute. Within the article, based on the analysis of statistical data and literature, the current trends of changes in family structure and related challenges will be described. When analysing changes in family structure, it is necessary to focus on both - structural and qualitative changes, which were reflected in the composition of families, trends in marriage registration, as well as in relationships between family members. The most characteristic changes show increase of such families with children where cohabiting partners are living together without registering the marriage as well as decreasing amount of nuclear families and increasing amount of single-parent families. This trend leads to other qualitative changes in family structure - several challenges of social policy because single-parent families often face different problems related to effective functioning of the family. For example, single-parent families with children are more often at risk of poverty than nuclear families, as well as face various types of problems in meeting the needs of the family. Social policy planners, when designing support for families with children, should take into account the specifics of single-parent families and provide them support according to the needs of these families, without waiting when families will fall into the social risk category.

Parenting and Marital Trust in Japan

2005 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Sakai
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Nursery School ◽  
Parenting Behavior ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Japanese Mothers ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between marital trust, mothers' parenting stress and maladjusted parenting behavior in Japan. The participants consisted of 327 Japanese mothers who reside in the greater Tokyo area and whose children go to kindergarten or nursery school (the children's ages range from 3 to 6 years. Participants were asked to complete questionnaires about their family structure (nuclear or extended family), demographic information about their child (sex, age, birth order, etc.), marital trust, parenting stress, and maladjusted childrearing behavior. Analysis indicated that the relationship between marital trust, mothers' parenting stress and maladjusted childrearing behavior was different depending on the family structure. More specifically, for mothers in nuclear families, marital trust, especially the sense of being trusted by the husband, was associated with parenting behavior directly as well as indirectly via parenting stress. In contrast, for mothers in an extended family marital trust was not associated with maternal parenting behavior. The results were discussed in terms of the differences in the availability of social support in a nuclear family compared to the extended family.

A Study on Households’ Participation in Secular Giving: A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Family Structure

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-35
Author(s):  
Chulhee Kang ◽  
Changhoon Pyun
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Panel Surveys ◽  
False Discovery ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Social Agendas

This study examines how family structure (i.e., single-person, single-parent, married, and two-generation households, and households containing three or more generations) influences households’ participation in secular giving. This study also aims to understand households’ participation in secular giving in further detail by identifying and comparing giving participation patterns by family structure. This study used data from the Korea Institute of Public Finance’s 9th to 11th Financial Panel Surveys and analyzed by using a pooled logistic regression and a false discovery rate (FDR) procedure of Benjamini-Hochberg. The results demonstrated significant differences in giving participation according to family structure. In particular, two-generation, single-parent, married, and single-person households were less likely to participate in secular giving than households containing three or more generations. According to the comparison by family structure, household income per capita was a consistently significant predictor over diverse family structures. Also, this study presents specific patterns of household participation in secular giving by family structure. This study newly examines how secular giving participation patterns differ by different family structures and discusses new tasks and social agendas based on empirical results.

scholarly journals Change in Family Structure in the Modern Times

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Himani Bhasin
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family System ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Joint Family ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
System A ◽  
The Family

In India, the land of culture and unity, culture and unity are well manifested in the structure of society, indeed in the smaller unit of a society i.e. family. A family is a set of human beings related to each other in a non-professional manner, giving rise to a concrete cohesion within the family. Love, care, and affection are the most prominent human values, which are responsible for maintaining these bonds of relationships within a family. Typically, a nuclear family may be conceived as a unit consisting of a couple, children, and grandparents, and pets. In India however, there exists a special kind of family structure that really is quite vivid in the way it manages to handle and keep intact the human relations. This special kind of family structure is Joint Family System. A joint family is a collection of more than one, nuclear families that are interconnected by blood relations or marital relations. All the members, regardless of which particular nuclear family (within that joint family) they belong to, live together and share happiness, grief, and virtually every kind of problem and joy together. The joint family in itself simulates a typical view of our multi-cultural, multi-lingual, yet tightly intertwined Indian society. Indian president replies to a question related to spiritual strengths of India as:

Niepełna rodzina jako zaburzenie prawidłowego funkcjonowania struktur rodzinnych

2018 ◽  
pp. 126-142
Author(s):  
Michał Kuzdak
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family

The author discusses the topic of families, especially incomplete. The work is about the disorganization of the family structure, showing its causes and history. The article describes the dangers of modern family and relations on the parentchild line. The author refers to economic emigration as one of the reasons for the loosening of family ties and the cause of incomplete families.

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