Continuity and Changes in the Timing and Formation of First Marriage Among Postwar Birth Cohorts in Taiwan

Chen, Yuhua; Chen, Hsinmu

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“…Not long ago, marriage was nearly universal and concentrated in a narrow band of “appropriate” ages, especially for women (Brinton 1992; Chen and Chen 2014; Park and Cho 1995; Yeung and Hu 2013a). However, age at first marriage began to climb in the 1970s and 1980s for both men and women in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (see Table 1).…”

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“…The corresponding figures for women are 4.5% to 10.7% in Japan, 0.2% to 2.8% in Korea, and 0.9% to 8.4% in Taiwan, and official population projections for Japan are based on an assumption that 20% of women born after 1995 will never marry (NIPSSR 2012c). There is emerging evidence that more highly-educated men in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan delay marriage but are more likely than their less-educated counterparts to ever marry, (Chen and Chen 2014; Park and Lee 2014; Piotrowski, Kalleberg, and Rindfuss 2014). The pattern is different in China where marriage is concentrated in a relatively narrow age range and has remained nearly universal (Frejka, Jones, and Sardon 2010), except among less-educated men in the most recent birth cohort (Yeung and Hu 2013a; Yu and Xie 2013).…”

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Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change

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Trends toward later and less marriage and childbearing in East Asia have been even more pronounced than in the West. At the same time, many other features of East Asian families have changed very little. We review recent research on trends in a wide range of family behaviors in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. We also draw upon a range of theoretical frameworks to argue that trends in marriage and fertility reflect tension between rapid social and economic change and limited change in family expectations and obligations. We discuss how this tension may be contributing to growing socioeconomic differences in patterns of family formation. This focus on East Asia extends research on the second demographic transition in the West by describing how rapid decline in marriage and fertility rates can occur in the absence of major changes in family attitudes or rising individualism.

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Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change

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“…The pace and magnitude of the trend toward later and less marriage has been particularly pronounced in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (Chen and Chen 2014;Park and Lee 2017;Raymo 2013;Raymo et al 2015). Mean age at first marriage has increased substantially over time for both men and women in these societies: from about age 27 for men in 1980 to about age 31 in 2010, and from less than age 25 for women in 1980 to age 29 in 2010 (Raymo et al 2015).…”

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Marriage Decline in Korea: Changing Composition of the Domestic Marriage Market and Growth in International Marriage

Raymo

Park

2020

Demography

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Explanations for the substantial decline in rates of marriage in East Asian countries often emphasize the role of rapid educational expansion for women in reducing the desirability of marriages characterized by a strong gender-based division of labor. Focusing on South Korea, we consider a very different scenario in which changing educational composition of the marriage market reduces the demographic feasibility of such marriages. Analyses of 1 % microsamples of the 1990 and 2010 Korean censuses show that changes in the availability of potential spouses accounted for part of the decline in marriage rates over a period of 20 years (1985-1989 to 2005-2009) for highly educated women and less-educated men. We also show that growth in international marriages played a role in preventing an even more dramatic decline in marriage among low-educated men. These findings support the general relevance of marriage market mismatches in gender-inegalitarian societies and highlight the declining feasibility of marriage for low-educated men in such contexts. Findings also hint at important implications for inequality in a society such as Korea, where marriage remains a symbol of social success and is closely related to women's economic well-being and men's health and subjective well-being.

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“…Although the tradition of arranging marriages for their children has declined, East Asian parents continue to facilitate their children's marriages by providing monetary support to children when they enter marriage (Lin and Pei 2016) or by becoming involved in children's mate selection (Wang and Chen 2017). In Taiwan, parental expectations still exert some degree of influence on children's choice of mate, as well as affect children's perceptions of their relationship quality (Chen and Chen 2014;Tsay and Wu 2006).…”

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Comparing same- and different-sex relationship dynamics: Experiences of young adults in Taiwan

Lin¹,

Yu²,

Su³

2019

DemRes

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BACKGROUND Few studies of same-sex relationships are able to capture the dynamics of these relationships from formation to dissolution, and even fewer provide evidence on these dynamics in a non-Western context. OBJECTIVE Using retrospective relationship history data collected from a nationally representative sample of young adults, this study compares the processes of forming and terminating relationships between same-and different-sex couples in Taiwan, an Asian society featuring both strong parental influences on children's mate selection and an ongoing legislative effort to legalize same-sex marriage. RESULTS Results from event history models show that factors associated with relationship formation and dissolution are largely similar for same-and different-sex unions and that same-sex relationships do not have higher dissolution rates. Nevertheless, premarital coresidence with parents, which is likely to amplify parental influences on children's mate selection, deters the entry into and accelerates the dissolution of same-sex relationships more than it does different-sex relationships. Moreover, same-sex relationships are more heterogamous in family economic background, but more homogamous in age and education level, than different-sex ones.

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Continuity and Changes in the Timing and Formation of First Marriage Among Postwar Birth Cohorts in Taiwan

Cited by 22 publications

References 24 publications

Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change

Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change

Marriage Decline in Korea: Changing Composition of the Domestic Marriage Market and Growth in International Marriage

Comparing same- and different-sex relationship dynamics: Experiences of young adults in Taiwan

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