中国城市青年中的父母干预型离婚与个体化

Parent-driven divorce and individualisation among urban Chinese youth

在中国家庭中,呈现出一个新的发展趋势,亲权在1980年后出生的一代成年子女的决策中的影响增大了。其中,包括一些重要的决策,如教育、职业道路、择偶、婚姻以及居住。在中国,亲权的回归是否将成为个体化发展的一种阻力?或者说,它实际上是个体化过程中的一部分,体现了应对与驾驭个体化浪潮的个体策略?这是为写作本文所做的研究的核心问题。为了回答问题,本文试图通过审视亲权在城市青年离婚过程中扮演的角色来寻找答案。缺乏再嵌入机制,物质主义主宰一切,以及因社会信任度下降所带来的个人信任重要性等,均对亲权的回归起到了作用。本文在说明这一点的同时,也提出了一些有关全球性的个体化趋势及其局部变异的问题。

A new development in the Chinese family is that parental power has grown to influence the decision-making of adult children in the generation born after 1980. This includesimportant decisions such as education, career path, partner choice, marriage, and residence.Does the return of parental power constitute a counterforce to individualization in China? Or it is actually part and parcel of the process of individualisation, reflecting the individual's strategy of coping with and riding the tide of individualisation? This is the central research question that the present study seeks to answer by examining the strong role of parental power in marriage dissolution among urban youth.While showing that the lack of re-embedment mechanisms, the dominance of materialism,and the central importance of personal trust resulting from the decline of social trust have contributed to the return of parental power, the present study also raises a number of questions about the global trend of individualisation and its local variations.