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Intergenerational relations and reproductive behavior in Taiwan

Author(s) -

Arland Thornton,

Ronald Freedman,

Te-Hsiung Sun,

Ming-Cheng Chang

Publication year - 1986

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061615

Subject(s) - residence , limiting , reproductive behavior , psychology , demography , developmental psychology , marital status , population , social psychology , sociology , family planning , research methodology , mechanical engineering , engineering

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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