英文摘要 |
This paper explores family change and its process in Kinmen by using family demography and sociology through connecting government data and document analyses. The main finding is that family change in Kinmen was affected by the form of geopolitics, from military war to economic war. Because of the inner war between the Kuomintang and Communists in 1949, Kinmen was forced into military rule. Family represented the social control frontier to reduce the burden and dependence on the military system through the control of population movement, family planning, and family-based guarantee system. After the 1992 curfew was lifted, these rules were deregulated gradually. During this period, the family formation, scale, and relationship changed with the development of tourist and service industries and social welfare system. Furthermore, the policy of Mini Three Links, implemented in 2002, opened the marriage market to the world and affected family values. Currently, the features of families in Kinmen include a higher proportion of new inhabitants and that of single-parent and grandparent families-provided the female employment rate is higher than that for male and the elderly population is higher than the younger population, respectively. The Kinmen society has demonstrated changes in gender and care relationships during social and demographic transformation. This transformation was associated with the division between Kinmen and Taiwan under the national developmental framework with wider geopolitics. In other words, in Kinmen, families represented the important unit of the military system, supporting Taiwan's safety and development during the military rule; with the global emergence of economic war, families have eventually lost their importance and became the tools of social services. In brief, this paper defines that the change in the importance of family in policy occurs from the frontier to the margin. |