2001 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 11-20
The purpose of the present article is to consider the problem of contemporary Japanese family in Japan from comparative behavioral perspective. The degree of participation of the elderly in child-rearing declines due to the increase of nucleus families. Its effect as well as that induced by the increase of white-collars upon child growth is reviewed. The issue of whether family is indispensable for human living is also discussed.