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Changing Chinese family structures weigh on intergenerational bonds
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Not only are family structures changing, values held by the elderly in China and their adult children are diverging as well.
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BEIJING - Families in China are changing, as the world’s second-largest economy grows from strength to strength, causing relationships between parents and their adult children to evolve accordingly.
Increasingly, more nuclear families – comprising a set of parents and, more often than not, their only child – are being formed in China, as the number of extended families living together continues to dwindle both in cities and villages.
