“两头走”:一种流动性婚居模式及其隐忧——基于对江汉平原J村的考察

Residing-both-sides:A Flowing Marriage Pattern and Its Potential Social Problems :An Investigationin J Village of Jianghan Plain

近年来,"两头走"作为一种新的婚居模式开始在部分农村兴起。基于江汉平原的田野经验,发现"两头走"是农民的实用主义逻辑的折射,它由农民的家庭人口结构、人情维系之需要以及家计模式等多种因素共同塑造而成。"两头走"这种流动式婚居模式虽然呼应了母家庭的利益需求,并赋予了子代家庭以较大的自由,但实际上导致了代际关系失衡、家庭关系形式化、子代家庭负担加重以及父代养老风险增加等问题。

Residing-both-sides is a term used here to describe the new marriage pattern that the wife or husband lives with his or her parents and his or her spouse's house in return emerging in the past years. The field survey in Jianghan plain shows that residing-both-sides pattern is the result of farmers' pragmatic logic shaped by the farmers' family structure,the needs of maintaining social relations and their household pattern. Although this pattern echoes the family interests of wife's parents and gives the young couple more flexibility to support both' parents, actually it causes the imbalanced intergenerational relations, the formalization of family relations, the increasingly heavy burden of the young couples as well the risks of the old generation's support.