Hypotheses regarding the relationship between "enforced" marriage and church affiliation, degree of urbanization and level of education are tested with data from the Netherlands pertaining to the periods 1959-1961 and 1969-1971. Differences between the first and the second time period are attributed to sexual permissiveness during the last decade.…

The concept that joint family households will prove a barrier to the emergence of conjugal role patterns was tested for a sample in Dharwar, India. It was found that living with close kin was not highly correlated with a major increase in husband and wife avoiding one another. Urbanization and education, however, both seem to lead to changes in…

This paper tackles the assumption that as a country with a joint family system modernizes, the result will be the decline of the joint family in terms of the property relations among fathers, sons, and brothers. (Author)

Straus has argued that joint households and extended kinship ties might be a factor which could help urbanization because the extended family could ease urban adjustment among its members. Evidence in support of the Straus hypothesis is presented. (Author)

A sample of 1123 young people in Hong Kong responded to a number of statements concerning family norms. Data suggest that with regard to relationships between husband and wife, and parents and children, views are more consonant with the norms of the Western conjugal family than the traditional Chinese family. (Author)

This study analyzes urban-rural variations in Philippine household size and components of household size, as well as the relative contribution of these components to household size. Household size is larger in urban than in rural areas and the difference largely reflects the presence of extended family members and non-relatives. (Author)

Investigated causes for rise in female age of marriage in Sri Lanka, studying 10,964 persons from 1,974 households. Found that rise in marriage age was not primarily a response to social pressure for fertility decline, but rather a result of urbanization, higher levels of education, unemployment, and consequent decline in parentally arranged early…

Suggests that in the urban-industrial setting of Hong Kong, Chinese familism has taken the form of utilitarianistic familism. Discusses three structural factors to account for the emergence of utilitarian familism: Chinese immigration, institutional inadequacy, and socioeconomic development; explores their relationship to utilitarianistic…