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China's One-child Policy and the Changing Family

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ID2990171
AuthorsXiao-Tian Feng (0000-0003-4893-2942, Nanjing University), Dudley L Poston (Texas A&M University), Xiao-Tao Wang (Nanjing University), Xiaotao Wang (0000-0003-4543-5270, Nanjing Agricultural University)
Year2014
Volume45
Issue1
Pages17-29
Publication date2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.45.1.17
OpenAlexW4247267563
LanguageEN
Citations received44

China's one-child policy was initiated in late 1979. Since its inception, nearly 150 million single children have been born in China. It is believed that this generation of only children has dramatically changed family structure, family relationships, and family lifestyle in China. It has also resulted in problems and issues not previously present in Chinese families, such as smaller families, a simplification of family structure, a shift from parented centered families to child centered families, the child becoming the focus of the family, changes in living patterns, and changes in family lifestyle. Also, there has been a decreased base of support for the elderly. We discuss these and related issues in this overview analysis of China's changing family structure in the context of the one-child policy

China · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Geography · Nuclear family · One-child policy · Political science · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology

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