Also, there has been an increasing academic concern about sibling relationships and parenting behaviors toward siblings in China. A recent study based on a sample of Chinese families showed that the reaction of firstborn children to a sibling before the birth was associated with the time at which...
I always called Mr. Li “Sige,” or fourth elder brother, a term referring to both his birth order and his generational rank in the imagined kinship system that I had adopted during my early visits. I
What makes our journey unique, however, is our negotiation of roles between Chinese father and Canadian mother, and specifically surrounding gender equity. Gender equity is a hard issue to work out in China generally, but now with a baby, any hope I had for balance is skewed, yet again, b...
Nurses play a critical role in the implementation of child-friendly healthcare, ensuring that pediatric patients receive comprehensive and compassionate services. However, there is a global scarcity of research evaluating nurses’ practices in delivering child-friendly healthcare. Therefore, this study foc...
In 2013, the ‘Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Some Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening the Reform’ initiated the ‘selective two-child policy’, which allowed married couples to have two children if on
Traditional gender roles have been deeply ingrained within Chinese culture due mainly because Confucianism remains central amongst societal norms even today. However, modernization trends sweeping across major cities like Beijing & Shanghai have seen an evolution where women take up career-oriented paths ...
Cultural perspectives are necessary for the research domains of parenting and individuals’ socioemotional development (Bornstein, 2012; Chen et al., 2019). This research was conducted in mainland China, which is considered to have an interdependent culture. Therefore, culture-specific findings are ...
(Papadopoulos and Roumpakis2017; Wu2017). This study explores the paradoxical phenomena of China’s growing level of short-term family resilience and its long-term family decline. The purpose is to understand the roles of policies in setting the trend of short-term stronger resilience and long...
Understanding filial piety as it pertains to aging and caregiving among CCAs is expected to bridge the cultural chasm in nurs- ing knowledge and improve the quality of rendered ser- vices. Accommodating and integrating CCA culture is vital for effectively adapting aging and caregiving prac- tices...
For the parent group, five of them were mothers, one a father, and one the child’s aunt and primary carer since the child’s birth. One of their children was 18 years old and attended a special school; the others were over 20 years old and took part in various daily activities, inc...