Intergenerational Relationships between Married Children and Their Parents in 21st Century Japan: How are Patrilineal Tradition and Marriage Changing? ... Public in Asian and Global Perspectives, 12)

Book info: Intergenerational Relationships between Married Children and Their Parents in 21st Century Japan: How are Patrilineal Tradition and Marriage Changing? ... Public in Asian and Global Perspectives, 12) (Hardcover, 226 pages) – Brill, 2021. Language: English.

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. Editorial Reviews About the Author YAMATO Reiko, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Sociology at Kansai University (Japan). She has published extensively on women's employment, care-giving, and intergenerational relationships within the family, including The making of the life-long care-giver in postwar Japan (2008) and co-edited (with Nachiko Kiwaki and Setsuko Onode) Childcare for men and for women in contemporary Japan (2008).