We have
7.1% elderly population in 1993. In Taiwan, it takes only in 7 years form
aged society to super-aging society while other countries take much more
time. Taiwan’s high medical standards lengthen life expectancy. We have
less and less new-born babies while we live longer and longer. The
plummeted fertility rate makes “Who will take care of the elderly” become
the most important social issue. In this study, I want to understand how
the family values influence the responsibility of the elderly-caring. The
sample data comes from "Taiwan Social Change Survey Project 2011
Basic sixth second: Family Group"(TSCS QuestionnaireⅠ). With the traditional, the caring
parents' responsibility is the duty of sons’ wives. Now with the increase of women’s education years and female working
rates, sons and their wives take care of sons’ parents together. In this
study, first,I found the elder males with traditional family values still
want their sons to take care of themselves. Second, women or the persons
with higher education tend to share the duty of caring parents. Third, the
health and income of parents, children age, marriage, sex, income, years
of education and having the third generation will affect the attitude of
taking care responsibility. Forth, parents who live with their children
are fewer and fewer. They want to live by themselves or with their
couples, and they like to retain each space.