Chinese Lunar Birth Timing in Singapore: New Concerns for Child Quality Amidst Multicultural Modernity  

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Goodkind, Daniel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 58 no. 03 (Aug. 1996), page 784-795.
Topik: Singapore; fertility; ethnicity; birth timing; modernization theory

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In line with traditional folk beliefs, many Chinese societies throughout the world (with the exception of China itself) began in the 1970s and 1980s to exhibit birth fluctuations during significant lunar zodiac years-baby booms during the auspicious Year of the Dragon and baby busts during the inauspicious (for daughters) Year of the Tiger. This article explores these two inverse natural experiments in multiethnic Singapore. Lunar birth timing has been manifested more strongly as family sizes have declined, a reversal of modernization theory, yet consistent with enhanced concerns for child quality. The social, assimilative, and gender-related dynamics of these preferences are illustrated through an analysis of the seasonality and birth order distribution of lunar birth fluctuations as well as birth pal~ terns among intermarried Chinese mothers and fathers. The article derails how lunar birth fluctuations have been influenced by and have influenced official policies instituted by Singapore's shrinking Chinese majority. None of the assimilative social forces discussed here can be expected to weaken lunar birth timing in the future, although government intervention may inhibit its reoccurrence.

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