The changing Japanese family / edited by Marcus Rebick and Ayumi Takenaka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rebick, Marcus (Marcus E.)

Takenaka, Ayumi.

Series:

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 8.

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Japan.

Families.

Social conditions.

Social change.

Family demography.

Households.

Japan.

Households--Japan.

Family demography--Japan.

Family policy--Japan.

Family policy.

Sex role--Japan.

Sex role.

Social change--Japan.

Japan--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

The Japanese family is shifting in fundamental ways, demographically, and in terms of attitudes towards family and societal relationships, and the role of family in society. These changes include an aging population, delayed marriages, a birth rate which has fallen below the level needed for replacement, a decline in three-generational households, a rise in single men and women who continue to live with their parents, and a decline in family businesses. This book explores these significant changes and their effects, setting them in the context of wider economic and social changes in Japan, and making international comparisons, especially with southern Europe, where similar changes to the family and its role are occurring.

Contents:

The changing Japanese family / Marcus Rebick and Ayumi Takenaka

Demographics of the Japanese family : entering uncharted territory / Naohiro Ogawa, Robert D. Retherford, and Rikiya Matsukura

Japanese youth's attitudes towards marriage and child-rearing / Nobuko Nagase

Strong in tradition and yet innovative : the puzzles of the Italian family / Francesca Bettio

Changes in the workplace and their impact on the family / Marcus Rebick

The emergence of "nurturing fathers" : discourses and practices of fatherhood in contemporary Japan / Ayami Nakatani

Changing language, gender, and family relations in Japan / Tessa Carroll

Mother-rearing : the social world of mothers in a Japanese suburb / Ayumi Sasagawa

Policing the Japanese family : child abuse, domestic violence, and the changing role of the state / Roger Goodman

Changing families and policy responses to an ageing Japanese society / Misa Izuhara

Different paths to welfare : family transformations, the production of welfare, and future prospects for social care in Italy and Japan / Rossana Trifiletti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415368081

0203027825

OCLC:

61295898

Publisher Number:

9780415368087

9780203027820