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More mini-families emerge in China
(chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-08-10 09:15





According to Tang Can, a researcher of Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, the family size in Chinese cities and towns has become
miniaturized in the last 30 years. Meanwhile, family structure tends to
be diversified.

It's estimated that currently a Chinese family has 3.39 members on
average, descending 1.42 from the 1970s. In the US and Canada, a family
usually has 3 members.

Family miniaturization in China couldn't be considered as the trend of
nuclear families replacing large ones. To be sure, nuclear family has
been a major pattern of family structure in China, but more and more
Chinese families now only contain one or two people in recent years,
while the number of families with more than 4 members is decreasing.
Urbanization in China has helped to create various family structures,
like DINK families, bachelordom families, etc.

















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