The changing family in comparative perspective
Subtitle: Asia and the United States
By: edited by Karen Oppenheim Mason, Noriko O. Tsuya, and Minja Kim Choe.
Contributors: Mason, Karen Oppenheim.; Tsuya, Noriko O., 1954-; Choe, Minja Kim, 1941-; East-West Center.; Nihon Daigaku. Sōgō Kagaku Kenkyūjo.
Publisher: East-West Center; Published in cooperation with University Research Center, Nihon University, Tokyo; Distributed by University of Hawaii Press; Published in cooperation with University Research Center, Nihon University; Distributed by University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Family -- Asia; Family -- United States
Description: This volume compares recent family patterns in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and other Asian countries with those found in the United States. Written by distinguished social scientists from Asia and the U.S., the essays in this volume use new surveys and censuses to compare Asian and American patterns of marriage, divorce, women's roles, men's contributions to housework, well-being in marriage, and patterns of contact and exchange between adults and their parents.

The volume's results suggest that patterns of family formation and dissolution in Asia are converging with those in the United States in many respects, but that intergenerational relationships remain distinct.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The essays in this volume were first presented at Nihon University's Seventeenth International Symposium, Life and the Earth in the Twenty-First Century, held at Nihon University in Tokyo in March 1996"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Family formation in Japan, South Korea, and the United States: an overview / Shunichi Inoue; title: Changing marriage patterns in South Korea / Minja Kim Choe; title: The changing significance of marriage in the United States / Larry L. Bumpass; title: Time allocation between employment and housework in Japan, South Korea, and the United States / Noriko O. Tsuya, Larry L. Bumpass; title: Wives' economic decision-making power in the family: five Asian countries / Karen Oppenheim Mason; title: Dealing with a double day: role strain among married working women in Japan and South Korea / Tim Futing Liao; title: Husbands' drinking and spouses' well-being in Japan and South Korea / Eise Yokoyama, Noriko O. Tsuya; title: Intergenerational relations in South Korea / Moon-Sik Hong, Yong-Chan Byun; title: Intergenerational contact in the United States and Japan / Ronald R. Rindfuss, R. Kelly Raley; title: Family and intergenerational income transfers in Taiwan / Andrew Mason, Tim Miller; title: Family processes and their implications for families in the future / Larry L. Bumpass, Karen Oppenheim Mason; title: Appendix: summary of main project surveys.