The changing family in comparative perspective : Asia and the United States / edited by Karen Oppenheim Mason, Noriko O. Tsuya, and Minja Kim Choe.

Format Book
Publication InfoHonolulu : East-West Center : Published in cooperation with University Research Center, Nihon University, Tokyo : Distributed by University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
Descriptionxix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Families--Asia.
Families--United States.

Other author/creatorMason, Karen Oppenheim.
Other author/creatorTsuya, Noriko O., 1954-
Other author/creatorChoe, Minja Kim, 1941-
Other author/creatorEast-West Center.
Other author/creatorNihon Daigaku. Sōgō Kagaku Kenkyūjo.
Contents Family formation in Japan, South Korea, and the United States: an overview / Shunichi Inoue -- Changing marriage patterns in South Korea / Minja Kim Choe -- The changing significance of marriage in the United States / Larry L. Bumpass -- Time allocation between employment and housework in Japan, South Korea, and the United States / Noriko O. Tsuya, Larry L. Bumpass -- Wives' economic decision-making power in the family: five Asian countries / Karen Oppenheim Mason -- Dealing with a double day: role strain among married working women in Japan and South Korea / Tim Futing Liao -- Husbands' drinking and spouses' well-being in Japan and South Korea / Eise Yokoyama, Noriko O. Tsuya -- Intergenerational relations in South Korea / Moon-Sik Hong, Yong-Chan Byun -- Intergenerational contact in the United States and Japan / Ronald R. Rindfuss, R. Kelly Raley -- Family and intergenerational income transfers in Taiwan / Andrew Mason, Tim Miller -- Family processes and their implications for families in the future / Larry L. Bumpass, Karen Oppenheim Mason -- Appendix: summary of main project surveys.
General note"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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98072421
ISBN0866381872 :

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