中老年周末夫妻:城市化进程中的代际支持与家庭关系调适--基于城郊农村的经验分析

Weekend Couples in Middle and Old-Age:Intergenerational Support and Family Relationship Adjustment in Urbanization Process——An Empirical Analysis Based on the Suburban Areas

中老年周末夫妻现象是城市化进程中农民家庭代际支持的一种新方式,兼具家庭结构整合与家庭关系调适的意义,展现了农民家庭的能动性。文章发现中老年女性进城有助于实现家庭功能最大化,支持子代家庭在城市立足和发展。两代人因不同的生活经历和成长环境存在生活方式和生活习惯的差异,这些差异以生活话语权冲突的形式渗透在日常生活中,并带来家庭关系的紧张。代际之间适时的空间分离缓解了家庭关系的紧张,维持了亲密的家庭关系。当前家庭政策需重视农民家庭转型实践中的新现象,积极引导农民的家庭发展动力,形成积极和谐的家庭关系格局.

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of middle-aged and elderly weekend couples in the suburbs of big cities from two dimensions of family structure and family relationships.It finds that middle-aged and elderly women entering the city is the best strategy for the allocation of the labor force in peasant families,which is conducive to the maximization of family functions and the support of their children s families to establish a foothold and develop in the city.And the middle-aged and elderly women returning to the village at weekends is the need for adjustment of family relations in the transition.Due to their different life experiences and growing-up environment,the two generations have different lifestyles and living habits,which permeate into daily life in the form of life politics and cause tension in family relations.The spatial separation between generations alleviates the tension of family relationships and maintains a close family relationship.The phenomenon of middle-aged and elderly weekend couples is a new way of intergenerational support for farmer families in the process of urbanization,which has the meaning of the integration of family structure and the adjustment of family relationships and shows the dynamic adaptation of the farmer family.The current social policy needs to pay attention to the new phenomenon in the practice of family transformation of farmers,and actively guide the family development of farmers to form a positive and harmonious family relationship pattern.