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A practice highly acclaimed in East Asian societies is the providing by family members of financial support for aged parents. The support of elderly parents by their adult children allows the parents to face their senior years with less uncertainty. Some argue that this traditional role may be in the process of decline because of industrialization and the resulting declines in family size and the loosening of ties among family members. Using the 1999 and 2000 Panel study of Family Dynamics, current study, however, continues to find that industrialization in Taiwan has not weaken tradition family roles in providing elderly support.
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Hu, A.Kw. (2014). Determinants of Intergenerational Support in the Newly Industrialized Societies: The Case of Taiwan. In: Poston, Jr., D., Yang, W., Farris, D. (eds) The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7445-2_15
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