中国家庭代际功能关系及其新变动
Intergenerational Relationships and Their New Changes in Contemporary China#br#

摘要 家庭代际功能关系是由义务和责任履行、权利享有、需求交换和情感沟通所组成的体系。社会转型之下,亲代对子代的教育义务增大,子代赡养亲代义务减轻;高龄和生活不能自理父母对子女尚有照料依赖。随着独生子女一代的长大,女儿在代际功能关系中的作用提高,甚至具有不可替代性;人口预期寿命提高,直系成员存世代数增加,4代存世家庭大幅度上升,可能加大子代的照料负担。整体看子代"回馈"亲代的功能下降,直接影响育龄夫妇的生育行为。子代代际功能关系履行降低有社会福利制度的替代、客观条件制约的作用,也有主观意识弱化的因素,还有约束性制度环境欠缺的问题。政府和社会组织应推动适应现代社会要求的新的代际功能关系的建立。
Abstract：Intergenerationalfunctional relationship is an institutional system including obligation，responsibility，right to inheritance，mutual exchange and emotional communication．In the era of the contemporary social transformation，parents spend more money on their children’s education than in the past．Instead，adult children spend less cost to support their elderly parents than in the past．The obligation for adult children to take care of their parents is relatively reduced，but the elderly parents who could not take care of themselves have to mainly depend on their adult children．With the only child growing up，the daughter’s role is increasing in the intergenerational functional relationship，and even has no alternative．On the other hand，as the prolongation of life expectancy and increase of generations of lineal members，this will likely increase the burden of the adult children caring for elderly．Overall，at present，adult children's feedback function has declined and will directly affect the reproductive behavior of couples at childbearing age．The reasons for the weakening intergenerational functional relationship are as follows: social welfare system has played a role as an alternative to son in supporting the elderly，some objective factors have limited the play of family function，subjective consciousness of keeping intergenerational relationships has been weakened，the new institution environment that maintains intergenerational relationships has not been established．