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Article: Types of relations between adult children and elderly parents in taiwan: mechanisms accounting for various relational types.(Report)
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- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2009
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INTRODUCTION
In recent decades, Taiwan has experienced steadily declining fertility and increased longevity expectation. As a result of the changing population structure, the elderly dependency ratio is expected to advance from 13.8% in 2006 to 30.3% in 2026 and to 67% in 2051. With a cultural heritage of strong filial piety, support of elderly parents has become a highly significant issue in the face of a drastically aging population.
From the perspective of the traditional Chinese family, a three-generational household or the co-residence of adult children with elderly parents is considered the ideal realization of filial piety. Although cultural ...