CHİNESE FAMİLY

Importance of traditions Conservation Chinese culture X European culture

Respectful youth Similarities with Turkish family

structure

Family; as the most important instutition

Family: sacred, honorable

MAN Responsibility Leader Authority Final say

Effect of religion in family structure; Confucianism: social order,

communal behaviour A mate for children

Extended families – at least 2 generations (3, 4, 5)

Woman in the family Member of another family Lower people compared with men

Children in the family Sexual discrimination Families without children Adopted son (not a girl)

Patriarchy Hierarchy: Senior – Junior Older – Younger Men - Women

Newly married couples – grooms family

A tradition similar to henna night

Certain boundaries in the family Common budget

Modern China Alone parents Nuclear families Living with parents for financial

support Free

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/china/chinese-culture-family-life/1781

http://ezinearticles.com/?Family-Structure-in-China&id=2177479

http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbfamilism-u.html