家族変動と教育

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The Japanese family has experienced dramatic changes in its demographic, socio-economic and legal aspects in the modernization process since the Meiji Restoration. In this article, the long-term demographic changes of the Japonese family are examined with respect to (1) the family formation process, (2) the family expansion process, (3) family stability, and (4) family size and composition, as these factors relate to education. (1) Japanese marriage patterns have been changing from early and universal to late and universal. Currently, marriage universality is in jeopardy altogether. (2) In the post-war years, the mean number of children ever born to married couples has decreased very quickly, and the two-child norm has been established since the early 1960's. (3) Due to the increase in life expectancy, the duration of the relationships among family members has been extended, even as recently marital duration has begun to shrink somewhat owing to an increase in the divorce rete. (4) Fertility decline and a change in residential patterns among family members have brought about not only a decrease in household size, but also changes in the compositions of households, in particular, the increase in single-generation households and the decrease in three-generation households.
日本教育社会学会の論文
1991-06-05