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Families in Southeast and South Asia

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  • Wei-Jun Jean, Yeung
  • Desai, Sonalde
  • Gavin W., Jones

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Southeast and South Asia are home to one-third of the world’s population. Their great economic and cultural diversities make generalization about family patterns and trends hazardous. We review literature on trends in fertility, marriage, divorce, and living arrangements in the past half century. Explanations focus on structural and ideological changes related to socioeconomic development, cultural factors including kinship system, religion and ethnicity, and public policies. While the impact of rapid modernization and related ideational changes are evident, there are also changes, or lack thereof, that cannot be explained by development and may be attributable to historical and cultural factors that have shaped family norms in the region. The following trends are evident: (1) declining fertility and rising age at marriage, although teenage and arranged marriages remain common in South Asia, (2) a majority of elderly continue to live with or are supported by their children, (3) divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing remain relatively rare.

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  • Wei-Jun Jean, Yeung & Desai, Sonalde & Gavin W., Jones, 2018. "Families in Southeast and South Asia," MPRA Paper 111170, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2018.
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    Keywords

    Family; Development; Fertility; Marriage; Culture; Kinship; Southeast Asia; South Asia;
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    JEL classification:

    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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