Abstract T his paper discusses the composition mutual relationship and changing characteristics of individual family network family and kinship circle family. According to this study individual family with the functions of rearing the young and supporting the old had been cherished and sanctified by the government and people alike in traditional society in the traditional era. Family division among brothers when their parents were still around was suppressed leaving little chance for the development of network family. Kinship circle family was the main social network an individual family would resort to for social resources or in time of difficulty. In modern times especially after Liberation the individual family s functions of child rearing and elderly supporting have been decomposed. With more and more families having two or more married sons splitting up network families gradually arose and came into dominance. The original obligations of supporting the elderly are now shared by the individual cell families in the network family. In other words the within-family mode of elderly supporting is now replaced by the between-family mode. The kinship circle family which used to keep the individual family intact is in the decline. Modern legal system has created the institutional environment for the growth of dual-lineage network families. In particular birth control under the one -child policy necessarily results in large numbers of dual -lineage families and urbanization has been their driving force. Kinship circle family has been further weakened as married daughters and their families become part of the network family. In fact in the families that have two one-child generations kinship circle family tends to disappear. Keywords individual family network family kinship circle family 83
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