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

"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...

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Superior document:The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives, volume 12
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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
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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.