CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS AND KINSHIP IN POSTWAR JAPAN: Examining Bilateral Hypotheses by Analyzing the National Family Survey (NFRJ-S01)

In the half-century following the end of World War II, the social environment surrounding the Japanese family has changed greatly. In particular, environmental changes including the interrelationship between the legal system, industrial structure and demographic factors have had a major impact on the structure and function of the family. Further, it has been said that since the 1960s, the Japanese family system has dramatically converted from a stem family system to a conjugal family system, and that major change has been realized in the relationships between parent and child and kinship (Morioka [1983] 2000, Ochiai [1994] 2004). However, the course of action of these changes within parent-child and kinship relations is not entirely clear. In regard to the questions of just what the fundamental structure of parent-child CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS AND KINSHIP IN POSTWAR JAPAN: Examining Bilateral Hypotheses by Analyzing the National Family Survey (NFRJ-S01)