Family Changes:Dynamic Analysis of Independent-provide for the Aged:Based on the Field Investigation of Suburb Village in Shanghai

Family support for the aged people which is characterized by having children against the aged has become gradually disintegrated and it is difficult to sustain in Shanghai suburb village. There is a new pattern coming that is called Independence-Provided for the aged which is characterized by" on the basis of the self-labor, with independent distribution as the principle, for the purpose of self-accumulation". Based on the old people's situation in suburb village, the paper found that there are dynamic and closely relative relations between the family change and the independence-provide for the aged. There are three aspects to the family changes:the core tendency of Family structure, the simplification of family function, the secularization of family culture. They collapse the social basis of the pattern of family support for the aged from the family internal, so as to transform the old man's endowment ideas and behavior and make the old man choose a new model of independent-provided for the aged.