Intergenerational relations and reproductive behavior in Taiwan |
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Authors: | Arland Thornton Ronald Freedman Te-Hsiung Sun Ming-Cheng Chang |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Social Research, Department of Sociology, and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2. Population Studies Center and Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 3. Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning, Taiwan
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Abstract: | The character of intergenerational relationships between parents and their adult unmarried children in Taiwan is consistently and systematically related to the later reproductive behavior of the children after they marry. The greater the extent to which the adult unmarried children are exposed to nonfamilial relationships and contexts in school, at work, in the use of wages, in marriage decisions, and in first place of residence after marriage, the fewer children they will have and want and the greater the likelihood that they will begin contraception for spacing rather than for limiting their number. These relationships are consistent with theories about the transformation of familial relationships and reproductive patterns in the course of development. |
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