The Research Of Intergenerational Transfers From Children To Parents In Rural Family

The paper concerns some key practical problems based on "The rural elderly parentsjust to maintain the basic standard of living, some families even only in the basicsafeguard life", and regards the intergenerational transfers from children to their parents inYuan village family as the research content. The paper adopts on-the-spot investigationand the interview of case study method, to describe, understand and explain the children’sgeneration transfer and parents’ life situation, so as to explore of the rural families ineconomic and social structure changes background, and further to make academic studyand response the fundamental theories of altruism proposition and exchange proposition.On the basis of the parents’living and the children’s transfer reality, the paper arguesthe relationship between the intergenerational rights and obligations behind ofintergenerational transfer behaviors from the macro structural factors and micro individualfactors. So as to get the overall cognitive relationship of parents living conditions, childrenintergenerational transfer and family rights and obligations, to get a deep understanding ofthe dislocation and changing of rights and duties in the intergenerationalThe paper has the following basic conclusions:Firstly, from the perspective of the macro structural factors, in the transition ofeconomic and social structure background, with the rise of the “Out-working”trend, moreand more young people go out to find jobs and work, the idea of "time of economic"infects every young people, people’s behaviors and concepts reflect more and moremarket rationality and exchange socialist logic. In the trends of the core family structureand declining birth rates, the traditional family endowment of the population basegradually weakens, together with chronic diseases spread to the countryside, rural oldparents’ physical health, physical and spiritual emotion are not satisfied. Along with thefamily ethic idea weakens in step, the children’s altruism idea begin to drop, exchange socialist idea begin to rise. In structural persecution stress, parents have lost the basicrights of "be support", and instead, they bear much more responsibility and obligation totake the care of grandchildren, do the housework and so on. At the same time, theirchildren are pursuit of own happiness rights, the intergenerational rights and obligationshas obvious misalignment and change.Secondly, from the of micro individuality factors, based on the number of son in thefamily, the author divides the rural family into the little children family and many childrenfamily. Research found is, in less children family, children show more altruism motivation,individual action inclines to much traditional action. In families with many children,children show more exchange socialist motivation, individual action tend to be moreobjective rationality action. from the judge of the rights and obligations, children reflectsmore "right standard" thought, parents reflect more "obligation standard" thought.Thirdly, on the basis of investigation in the macroscopic and microscopicperspectives, the author gets the typed analysis of altruism proposition and exchangeproposition in family intergenerational transfers. To the analysis of altruism proposition,children’s transfers embodied altruistic behavior in return type affection in less childrenfamilies; In families with many children, children’s transfers embodied obligationsaltruistic behavior. To the analysis of exchange proposition, children’s transfers embodiedexchange behavior. Instead, In some families, no matter how little or many children, thechildren’s transfers embodied in type of exchange act access to resources. On this basis, inthe perspective of the life cycle, the paper in order to make the outline of proposition, todescribe and explain "altruism-exchange" analysis of children’s intergenerational transfersin the different development stages of family.