Intergenerational relationships between married children and their parents in 21st century Japan : : how are patrilineal tradition and marriage changing? / / by Yamato Reiko.

• Superior document: The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives, volume 12
• VerfasserIn: Yamato, Reiko, 1960-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives ; v. 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) :; illustration

"East Asian societies have a patri-lineal tradition in which a family successor must be a son and parents live with the heir and his family. In Japan, the patri-lineal family system was prevalent among the samurai warrior class in the early modern period. In the modern period, it was stipulated in the civil code until the end of World War II. This tradition, however, is changing with a background of gender equalization and fewer number of sons resulting from low birth rates. Intergenerational Relationships between Married Children and Their Parents in 21st Century Japan is the first book that introduces a new perspective of the individualized marriage into a study of intergenerational relationships and examines how the patri-lineal tradition is both changing and maintained. This book deals with patri-local coresidence, matri-local nearby-residence, and support exchange between adult children and their parents/ parents-in-law, and offer a new framework for comparative studies of today's East Asian families"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Understanding the complexity of today's intergenerational relationships -- Changes in the social environment surrounding married children and their parents -- A new perspective on the intergenerational relationship : individualized marriage -- Patrilocality and matrilocality -- Paternal coresidence and maternal coresidence -- Support from married children to their parents : focus on individualized marriage -- Support from parents to their adult children : women as family kin-keepers -- Conclusion: Multidimensional intergenerational relationships.