This paper examines the role of developmental thinking in the making of family values. We analyze survey data collected from Gansu Province in China with regular and multilevel logit models. The results show that individuals' endorsement of neolocal residence, self-choice marriage, gender egalitarianism, late marriage for women, and low fertility depends on the conjunction of preference for dev...

This paper outlines the combination of two prominent theories of social life: 1) modernization theory and 2) W.I. Thomas’ theorem that people’s perceptions have real consequences. It then documents the extent to which the complex idea of modernization and development has cemented itself in the minds of ordinary people as a model of how the world works. I employ latent class analysis and use 200...

Childbearing within unmarried cohabitation has increased significantly over past decades. Earlier studies have linked non-marital childbearing to low educational attainment. In this study, we address non-marital childbearing from a couple’s perspective, taking into account both his and her human capital. We examine the link between educational assortative mating and family formation within and ...

intimacy and emotional disattachment is a main challenge in contemporary family that interpreted and perceived differently from different viewpoints. the aim of this study was exploring the context and dealing why of woman by emotional sepration through investigation of perception and subjective meaning of womans that involved in this process. research done in qualitative research and grounded ...

Family pressure pushes a considerable proportion of Chinese queer individuals into heterosexual marriage. Few investigations have been solely devoted to examining family pressure. For comprehensive picture the issue, this study presents results systematic review that identified 32 relevant papers answer three research questions: (1) What are antecedents (i.e., drivers and sources) enter marriag...

This article explores the remarkable shift in marriage and divorce practices that has occurred in the last third of this century in the United States. Initially, information is presented on trends in divorce and remarriage; commonalities and differences between family patterns in the United States and in other industrialized nations are discussed. The author then identifies some of the factors ...

Mrs R., aged 34, comes of healthy stock. There is no outstanding feature in the medical history of her family, and her own history was uneventful until shortly after her marriage in March 1930. The menarche occurred at the age of 15, and her periods were of 5/28 day type, associated with cramping suprapubic pain on the first day. Immediately after her marriage she and her husband sailed for Afr...