ABSTRACT
Chinese Family Strengths and Resiliency Anqi X u
Xiaol in X i e Wenli L i u Yan X i a
Dalin L i u
INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE MARRIAGES AND FAMILIES
Chinese families have undergone tremendous changes in the past several decades as a result of socioeconomic developments, among them, the governmental one-child-per-family policy that has impacted family structure and family dynamics. The economic growth in major cities has prompted development of the housing market that gives young married couples the opportunity to purchase their own housing. Thus, the nuclear family has become the normative family structure. This chapter is an effort to delineate family strengths typical of contemporary Chinese families, and to provide current research on Chinese marriages and families that chronicle attitudinal changes on mate selection, divorce, and childbirth between genders, between older and younger generations, and between urban and rural residents.
