Minister Li Bin Attended the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2014

正During April 8~11,2014,Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2014 was convened in Boao,Hainan.Ms Li Bin,Minister of National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC)attended the opening ceremony and spoke at the roundtable ofMission of International Medical Tourism Pilot.Li pointed out in her speech at the roundtable that,in 2013,the State Council issued Some Opinions on     

Five Major Tasks in Aging Work for NHFPC in 2014 Long-term Nursing System for the Elderly will be Explored

正On March 25,2014,the first plenary meeting of the Leading Group of Health,Family Planning and Aging Work of National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC)was convened in Beijing.Mr.Wang Pei'an,Vice Minister of NHFPC attended the meeting and made a speech.Wang pointed out that the Party Central Committee and the State Council     

关于计划生育经费管理体制改革的思考

我国目前计划生育经费投入、管理与使用过程中存在以下问题 :基层计划生育经费缺乏长期稳定充足的来源 ;乱收费或用计划生育经费投资经商办企业。对计划生育现行的管理体制必须进行大胆改革 :计划生育费应实行社会统筹 ;基层计划生育工作人员应作调整与充实 ;计划外生育费应继续推行“乡收县管、财政监督”加强监督计划生育经费的投入 ;出台统一计划生育服务费标准     

Explaining attitudes about homosexuality in Confucian and non-Confucian nations: Is there a ‘cultural’ influence?

The majority of research on attitudes about homosexuality has concentrated on the global North and on Christian and Muslim majority nations. Little research attention has been given to the factors that shape tolerance in societies with a Confucian heritage. Residents of Confucian counties are less tolerant than Europeans and Americans. One reason given for this difference is the emphasis on Confucian values in many Asian societies. Using data from the World Values Survey, we examine whether values that could be described as Confucian influence attitudes in Confucian and non-Confucian nations. We find a unique Confucian cultural effect, which can partially be explained with concerns about keeping the family intact. Conversely, in Confucian societies values related to obedience, conformity, and filial piety are unrelated to attitudes. There is also a small Buddhist contextual effect, resulting in more tolerant attitudes, and the Confucian influence cannot be reduced to an Asian regional effect.     

The making of family values: Developmental idealism in Gansu,China

This paper examines the role of developmental thinking in the making of family values. We analyze survey data collected from Gansu Province in China with regular and multilevel logit models. The results show that individuals’ endorsement of neolocal residence, self-choice marriage, gender egalitarianism, late marriage for women, and low fertility depends on the conjunction of preference for development and beliefs in its association with those family attributes, which we term developmental idealism associational evaluation. Furthermore, such impact of developmental thinking on family values holds robust in the presence of indigenous ideational forces, in this case Islamic religion. Although Islam influences family values in the opposite direction than developmental ideas do, the effect of Developmental Idealism associational evaluation does not differ significantly between Muslims and non-Muslims.     

吉林省计划生育工作中存在的问题及对策

吉林省的低生育水平很不稳定,计划生育工作中还存在许多问题,需要综合解决人口问题的对策。做好新时期的人口与计划生育工作是全党、全民、全社会的大事,要依靠党委政府的领导,依靠全社会的力量。     

新生代独生子女婚恋失败偏多的成因分析与治理措施

新生代独生子女为已陆续进入婚恋高峰期,一个奇异的现象是“闪恋,闪婚,闪离”现象居多,究其主要原因在于社会文化多元化背景下,自我意识增强与包容性趋弱,期望值过高与现实生活反差大。容当加强教育疏导并辅以必要的措施,使之以理智的态度对待婚恋和家庭生活中可能遇到的矛盾和问题,提高生活质量。     

Sibship size and educational attainment. A joint test of the Confluence Model and the Resource Dilution Hypothesis

Studies on family background often explain the negative effect of sibship size on educational attainment by one of two theories: the Confluence Model (CM) or the Resource Dilution Hypothesis (RDH). However, as both theories - for substantively different reasons - predict that sibship size should have a negative effect on educational attainment most studies cannot distinguish empirically between the CM and the RDH. In this paper, I use the different theoretical predictions in the CM and RDH on the role of cognitive ability as a partial or complete mediator of the effect of sibship size to distinguish the two theories and to identify a unique RDH effect on educational attainment. Using sibling data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) and a random effect Instrumental Variable model I find that, in addition to a negative effect on cognitive ability, sibship size also has a strong negative effect on educational attainment which is uniquely explained by the RDH.     

Adolescent caretaking of younger siblings

Sibling interactions play important roles in socialization; however, little is known about sibling caretaking in contemporary families. This study examined the prevalence of adolescents providing care for younger siblings and the quality of care as associated with a broad spectrum of individual, microsystem, and macrosystem factors. Relying on nationally representative time diary data from the American Time Use Survey, we found that factors at multiple levels (individual, microsystem, and macrosystem) were associated with sibling caretaking. Gendered patterns in caretaking emerged. The caretaker’s sex and the ages and sexes of younger siblings correlated with the incidence and quality of sibling care. Boys more often cared for younger brothers, and girls more often cared for younger sisters. In addition, boys more often played with younger siblings while girls more often provided physical care and talked with younger siblings, mirroring gendered patterns seen in parents.     

A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Various Approaches to Visiting Isolated Community Elderly

Two studies were conducted evaluating the effectiveness of friendly visitor programs in increasing clients' life satisfaction. Study 1 found no difference between face-to-face visiting, phone visiting, and a no treatment control on client life satisfaction. Study 2 found a marginally significant difference in favor of a personal history approach over a companionship approach to visiting in increasing client life satisfaction. Clients' living situation (alone or with others) had no effect on changes in life satisfaction in Study 1. However, in Study 2 clients who lived with someone increased their life satisfaction more than clients who lived alone.