Kazoku syakaigaku kenkyu
Online ISSN : 1883-9290
Print ISSN : 0916-328X
ISSN-L : 0916-328X
Volume 20, Issue 2
Displaying 1-21 of 21 articles from this issue
Essay
Special Article
Articles
  • Examining Bilateral Hypotheses by Analyzing National Family Survey (NFRJ-S01)
    Shi LIPING
    2008 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 2_20-2_33
    Published: October 31, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: November 20, 2009
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    This study aimed to examine the following two hypotheses which have predicted the changes of parents-children relationships and kinship in postwar Japan, and to clarify the structure of parents-children relationships and the trend of the changes by comparing different birth cohorts' parents-children relationships. The hypotheses, based on the abolition of the stem family system and the fact that parents therefore have become less likely to live with their first-born son, were: (a) Supports from parents are equally shared among children and (b) Supports between married daughters and their parents have become more active. The data used is “NFRJ-S01”(National Family Research of Japan 2001 Special). The major findings were: that (1) First-born sons tended to live with their parents even though co-residency with husband's parents has declined, and that (2) Existing supports from the wife's parents have become more active after the 1950 birth cohort. These results indicate a possibility that the stem family system and shinrui are co-existing even today, offering evidence against hypothesis (a) and requesting modification of hypothesis (b).
    Download PDF (960K)
  • Empirical Approach to the Theory of Bilateralization of Intergenerational Relationship
    Noriko IWAI, Tokio YASUDA
    2008 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 2_34-2_47
    Published: October 31, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: November 20, 2009
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    Abiding by the norms of patriarchy, a married couple prioritizes the relationship with the husband's parents over the relationship with the wife's parents. However, the norms have weakened under the influences of the social and demographic changes after the war, and the bilateralization of the intergenerational relation is vigorously discussed recently. This article focuses intergenerational support relations (financial/physical) in the cases where respondents live separately from their parents and from parents-in-law, and analyzes balance between husband's side and wife's side and factors affecting this balance, using the newest data of the Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS-2006). It is hypothesized that with the weakening of the norms of patriarchy, not only the vector of equilibrating the support relation between wife's side and husband's side but also the vector of giving priority to the wife's side works. Results are as follows: 1) compared to support to parents, support from parents is more balanced between wife's side and husband's side; 2) compared to financial support, practical support is more balanced; and 3) regardless of content and direction of support, situational factors affect strongly.
    Download PDF (1270K)
  • An Analysis of Personal Advice Columns Regarding Divorce in Modern Japan (1914-2007)
    Megumi NODA
    2008 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 2_48-2_59
    Published: October 31, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: November 20, 2009
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    The purpose of this paper is to examine the so-called phenomenon of “individualization of the family” by focusing on how children are referred to in the case of divorce. The recent rise in divorce rates is considered as a result of the increase of choices in modern Japan, and evidence of the further advancement of “individualization of the family.” However, an analysis of remarks on children and divorce in personal advice columns seem to indicate a different picture, about which this paper will further elaborate on. Firstly, people seeking advice in the columns continue to judge the validity of a divorce request from the perspective of the interest of child, although the child in this case is a third party. Secondly, since the 1980s, advisers have begun to emphasize the importance of “personal choice,” but this is with the assumption that a parent's choice will not undermine the child's. So divorces today cannot be said to have been freed from the “child restriction,” and certain aspects of the “individualization of the family” may not actually be progressing.
    Download PDF (1045K)
Research Trends
Family Policy Reviews
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
feedback
Top