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HOUSEHOLD PATTERNS
AGRICULTURAL AGE FAMILY/HOUSEHOLD PATTERNS
Extended family: several generations living and working together on the land.
INDUSTRIAL AGE FAMILY/HOUSEHOLD PATTERNS
Nuclear family: father working, mother at home not working, and
approximately two children--for middle and upper classes in developed West.
Also nuclear family in lower class West and socialist countries--except that
women worked.
INFORMATION AGE FAMILY/HOUSEHOLD PATTERNS:
Multiple family patterns: no one model everyone must follow to be socially
accepted. Examples include: married couples with or without children;
unmarried couples living together; single parents; divorced parents with
children who remarry, making children part of different households; singleperson
households; people living in groups; gay and lesbian couples; etc.
INFORMATION/DATA ON JAPANESE FAMILY/HOUSEHOLD
PATTERNS
Japan has had a history of stressing it the importance of the "continuing family
before the individual. It was expected that the eldest son inherit the position of
head of the house. Continuity was of paramount importance and other
arrangements, such as adoption, would be made if no sons had been borne.
The rest of the children were expected to leave on marriage, girls to other
hawses, younger sons either to set up branch houses or to a house with no
son as an adopted head. It was important that a `bride or an adopted son fit
into the existing ie, because if they failed to do so, they but things have been
modified significantly. The absolute authority of the head of the house is over,
and since children now choose their future occupations freely, less is made of
an eldest son as the potential successor. Women are still the prime
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