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LOWE, VIVIEN HOH.

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FAMILY STRUCTURE AND FERTILITY IN HONG KONG.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	FAMILY STRUCTURE AND FERTILITY IN HONG KONG./
作者:	LOWE, VIVIEN HOH.
面頁冊數:	192 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-09, Section: A, page: 4173.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International41-09A.
標題:	Sociology, Demography. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8025833

FAMILY STRUCTURE AND FERTILITY IN HONG KONG.
LOWE, VIVIEN HOH.

FAMILY STRUCTURE AND FERTILITY IN HONG KONG. - 192 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-09, Section: A, page: 4173.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1980.

Various features of the extended family have been postulated to foster high fertility levels in developing countries. This study examines how features of the traditional Chinese family may affect the fertility values and behavior of individual women, using data from the 1972 KAP survey on currently married women in Hong Kong.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a Various features of the extended family have been postulated to foster high fertility levels in developing countries. This study examines how features of the traditional Chinese family may affect the fertility values and behavior of individual women, using data from the 1972 KAP survey on currently married women in Hong Kong.
520 $a The fertility variables examined are children ever born, desired family size and current contraceptive use for childspacing and for termination of childbearing. The family structure variables tap the residential, interactive as well as the attitudinal aspects of the classical Chinese family which is patrilineal and patrilocal. Age, age at marriage, educational attainment, rural/urban origin and socioeconomic class of the women are included as control variables in a series of multiple classification analyses.
520 $a Findings show that in general, family structure variables are not as good predictors of fertility as background variables except for current support to parents, which has strong negative effects on children ever born and desired family size. The family structure variables generally are associated with higher desired and completed fertility. Sizable differentials are found for expectation of support from children and son preference, whereas more moderate effects are found for co-residence immediately after marriage and current co-residence. Payment of wedding expenses by parents, decision making by parents, expectation of co-residence with children, and extended household preference have negligible effects.
520 $a Current support to parents is again the exception with sizable positive effects on current contraceptive use for both childspacing and termination of childbearing. Current co-residence and extended household preference have negative effects on childspacing, while son preference has negative effects on termination use. Decision making by parents affects both childspacing and termination use negatively. Differentials by other variables are of negligible size.
520 $a Interpretation of these findings underline the normative as well as the economic dimensions embodied in each family structure variable. Although greater normative continuity through co-residence results in slightly higher desired and completed fertility, economic cost/benefit considerations are apparently more important in affecting fertility preferences and outcome, hence the strong effects of current support to parents, expectation of support, and son preference, which we have asserted is largely based on relative economic benefit. Expectation of co-residence, since it lacks a clear indication of the direction of the flow of wealth between parents and children, consequently does not have any strong effect on fertility.
520 $a Traditional Chinese familial norms, which used to be economically rational courses of action and expectation in an agriculturally based economy, lose much of their reasons-to-be within the new urban industrial environment. As a result, the benefits of co-residence are indeterminate both in amount and direction, although financial support of aged parents continues to constitute a benefit to the parents.
520 $a On the societal level, when the benefits formerly accrued through familial ties are increasingly obtained through social services and participation in the greater economy, fewer couples are expecting the children to provide the major source of support, as is found in our data. This points to a considerable decline in future fertility in Hong Kong, as well as in other areas experiencing similar societal transformations.
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