Abstract
family system as a core organizational unit of the larger community. In general, two kinds of material constitute current knowledge about the Chinese family. The first deals mainly with the normative structure of the kinship system with careful documentations of kinship terms and prescriptions of status and obligations.1 The ideal norm of kinship structure was, however, best descriptive of the old gentry class of a later dynastic period.2 The second kind of material deals mainly with analytical and expository studies of families in transition based on ethnographic observation and on newspapers and other written documents.3 Systematic inquiries into the actual family processes and socialization of the young have not been pursued with vigor. For example, Ward reported that differences between boys and girls in temper tantrums are so discernible that the age and sex
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