Abstract

The purpose of this research is to explore gender preference and viewpoints of different country in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. To explore the differences toward the preceding issues in the different country so as to research and understand whether or not various personal and family factor cause the differences the gender preference.

The primary data were compiled from 2006 East Asian Social Survey, and while referencing Western and Taiwanese literature in order to explore the relationship between child gender and marital satisfaction. First, the research discusses child gender, the respondent’s gender, and their marital satisfaction and conflict. Next, we incorporated the factors of personal and family background into our discussion. In this study, we remove the divorce, cohabitation, single, separated, widowed and selected the married people to be the data for analysis in Taiwan, Korea, Japan and China.

The results show that gender preference has been significantly influenced the family in China and Taiwan. Besides, the boy more than girls, more girls than boys, boys and girls and all the girls as much as compared to higher marital satisfaction. By comparing the overall gender of respondents, it is revealed that women have lower marital satisfaction compared with men. When comparing all country, Taiwan has higher marital satisfaction compared with China.