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Mothers-in-law, daughers-in-law get better ties

By Jia Xu (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-05-21 15:55

Seventy percent of 20,000 mothers-in-law surveyed in Hangzhou say they would rather not live with their daughters-in-law, Xinhua.net reported today.

The survey, conducted by Hangzhou Women's Federation last year, shows the traditional Chinese big-family unit has changed in recent years, said Wang Bing, professor of orthopsychiatry at Peking University.

More mothers-in-law are well-educated and tolerant enough to accept the different values and lifestyles of their daughters-in-law, said Fu Liqun, head of Hangzhou Social Science Research Institute.