Attitudes Toward Marriage and the Family in Taiwan

Abstract

Some modern (Western) attitudes toward marriage and the family have gained almost as universal acceptance among Chinese university students in Taiwan as among American students. But from 30 to 50 per cent of the Chinese also profess other attitudes, favorable to the traditional family arrangements. The explanation is sought by way of the functional prerequisites of the modern patterns. Both the demographic and the institutional preconditions for modern patterns of family life are inadequately developed in Taiwan.