Abstract
The beliefs exist that females attach more importance to parent-child relationship than males, and that the aged have more traditional and conservative family ideas than other generations. Furthermore, it is pointed out that the Japanese people have inconsistent family ideas. A survey was conducted to clarify and compare the degree of the acceptance of the ideas toward the conjugal family system for reexamination of these common opinions. The samples were 388 male and 415 female students, 486 middle-aged couples, and 247 male and 169 female aged.
The results are as follows :
In the case of old people, there are a few items to which the proposition regarding the difference due to the sex is applicable. For the middle-aged couples and students, there are many items with difference in opposition to the propositions. It is confirmed that old people have more traditional family ideas than students, but the proposition regarding the difference due to the generation is not confirmed in the case of the comparison between old people and middle-aged couples in their child-rearing stage. All three generations do not have consistent family ideas, because they attach more importance to some items of parental relations and to other items of conjugal relations.
