title: Structural considerations in the contemporary Taiwanese farm family: survival of the large family ideal.
abstract: The structure of farm families in an industrializing rural area in west-central Taiwan is explored using data for 96 households in Hsiu-Shui district.  The results suggest that despite modernization and social change, "the large family ideal still persists and expresses itself as a compartmental family which offers both the individual freedom of a nuclear family and the support and security of a large extended family."
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Devoe
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D001208:Asia; D002681:China; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D007221:Industry; D009679:Nuclear Family; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012424:Rural Population; D012922:Social Change; D012939:Social Planning; D013624:Taiwan
keywords: Agricultural Development; Asia; China; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Eastern Asia; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Extended Family; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Size; Family Size, Desired; Industrialization; Modernization; Nuclear Family; Population; Population Characteristics; Rural Development; Rural Population; Social Change; Social Development; Taiwan