This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …

from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …