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Study On The Problems Of Middle-aged Women Empty Nester Family

Posted on:2012-12-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y SongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166330335975047Subject:Sociology
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The traditional sense of empty nester family by children's absence of elderly empty nester family life, because in the past the families with many children, when all children have left home, enter empty nest stage parents has basically close or already into old age stages. Because our country now use the special family planning policy, make "3 home" such one-child family structure modes is becoming more and more common, and as more and more children out of school, work and get married and other reasons, ever appeared in the elderly family attended phenomenon, now present middle-aged tendency, the current quite part of middle-aged couples have previously into empty nester period, be empty nester family members characteristics shows DiLingHua tendency, experts as "middle-aged empty nester family". Experts predict that, along with the development of modern social urbanization is steadily, family structure for continuous 3 home model development, middle-aged empty nester family will become the future urban family structure of a kind of trend.Through the middle-aged empty nester family this phenomenon study found that middle-aged empty nester period affect women than men, in empty nester state of both sexes will be affected by the different effects of presents different psychological state. Generally speaking, men left home for the child behaved more poised, while women reaction is much larger. That is to say, middle-aged empty nester meaning varies by gender, show gender differences, and, when compared with men, women are more vulnerable to empty nester problems. In midlife women in the empty nester family the incommensurate move significantly higher than male, the female because of lack of children of affection and spiritual comfort to produce "empty nest feeling" namely loneliness, also more prone to the "empty nest syndrome". This is because in modern Chinese family, the husband and wife role models often still retained more "male an outdoor and women more inside" colour. This kind of traditional role division makes women more to take the raising children, children's education task, corresponding to their children into the natural affection also more, so the child leave after, has invested a lot of time and energy in the child's mother's feeling gap, nature sensitive female loss to be even more pronounced. In addition, this period, most women in climacteric stage, the female physiology, psychological state of different change will happen, some women will produce loss, fidgety and other emotional, family empty nest stage and menopause at the same time arrival will no doubt the psychological burden of aggravating women. Instead, more than men at this time for the institutions in gold period, not focus on his wife's psychological needs, a spare a busy, plus children as "link" not at nearby, it is very easy to cause some psychological ability of poor women appear empty nest, or even affect marriage. Visible, in middle-aged empty nester family, women in addition to experience this because of lack of children of affection and spiritual comfort and produce the "empty nest feeling" outside, they may still must face because of empty nester arising from the both sides of husband and wife marriage emotional problems. Although, most women can successfully get through empty nest stage, but it is undeniable that normally women in the first period when entering attended all more or less, inevitably facing for empty nester resulting from the different degree of problem.Therefore, based on the above, the understanding of the problems in the study,1 tried to in sociology perspective, from the perspective of feminism and gender perspective, based in middle-aged empty nester family of women, this group to discuss them in real life for empty nester widespread problems faced by caring middle-aged women under empty nester family of the development of this group.
Keywords/Search Tags:Middle-aged empty nester family, the problems of women, reserch
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