Present forms and future attitudes of the elderly parental support in Taiwan. This paper examines the relationship between the practice and the attitude toward elderly parents' support in Taiwan.
Parents prefer living separately and have stronger desire of financial independence.
The findings support our hypothesis that current family structure and economic support patterns have significant effects on personal future attitudes toward the elderly support. Members from the nuclear family as well as those parents who have independent economy are more likely to favor similar support patterns in the future. Chinese - pp. C.-C. Yi, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. 99.60.2 - CHAN, Kam Wing.