养老倒逼婚姻:理解当前农村早婚现象的一个视角  

Parents'Endowment Enforce Children's Marriage:A Perspective of the Early Marriage in the Rural

作　　者：王德福[1] 

机构地区：[1]华中科技大学中国乡村治理研究中心,湖北武汉430074

出　　处：《南方人口》2012年第2期37-43,共7页South China Population

基　　金：贺雪峰教授主持的国家社科基金项目"城市化背景下村庄变迁及其区域差异研究"(11BSH024)的阶段性成果

摘　　要：农村近年来重新出现早婚高潮,早婚率甚至已经逼近上世纪80年代的水平。本文基于豫东西村的实地调查,认为当前农村的早婚现象是代际关系变动的结果,即养老倒逼婚姻:父母希望早日完成人生任务以便趁年轻力壮为自己积攒养老资源,子女在接受早婚要求的同时也通过婚姻向父母索取了大量家庭财富,代际之间的理性博弈助推了早婚的出现。在未来相当长的时期内,由代际关系变动推动的早婚仍将存在并可能有所发展。A climax of early marriage emerges in China＇s rural area In recent years and the early marriage ratio can parallel that in 1980s.The field survey of Xi village in eastern Henan reveals that the current rural early marriage is the result of generational relation reaction,that is to say,the early marriage of the young people in the rural is caused by their parents＇ future aging support needs.Chinese parents regard the marriage of their children as their main task in their life but they realizes the traditional family support from their children to their future aging time is no more practical,thus they hope to complete this task earlier so that they spend more time to remake enough resources for their future aging support.Children accept parents＇ arrangement of early marriage while require a relative large part of the family wealth.In the whole,the early marriage is out of the intergenerational rational consideration and this trend of early marriage driven by inter-generation reactions in the rural will continue for a long time in future.

关 键 词：早婚 人生任务 养老 代际关系 

分 类 号：C92-05[社会学—人口学]