Retirement family - Inkyosei family

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[Private retirement practices]
In the Meiji Civil Code, retirement was defined as the act of renouncing family rights in favor of an heir to the family head during one's lifetime, and it was stipulated that the head of the family must usually be over 60 years old (although any age is acceptable for a female head of the family) and that the heir to the family head must be approved in advance. However, the retirement practice that was practiced throughout Japan was a system in which a family splits into several relatively independent living units (households). Since retirement splits a family into several households, it is also called the retirement multiple household system, and a family that adopts this retirement multiple household system is called a retirement system family. The retirement system family was one typical type of Japanese family, along with the single-household family, which does not particularly separate living units within the family.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "retirement family" are listed below.

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［民間の隠居慣行］
　明治民法においては生前に戸主権を家督相続人のために放棄する行為を隠居とし，普通には戸主が満60歳以上であること(ただし女戸主の場合は何歳でもよい)，および家督相続人をあらかじめ承認しておくことが規定されていたが，日本の各地で行われてきた隠居慣行はひとつの家族がその内部でいくつかの相対的に独立した生活単位(世帯)に分かれて生活する制度をいう。隠居はしたがってひとつの家族が複数の世帯に分かれるので隠居複世帯制ともいい，こうした隠居複世帯制を採用している家族を隠居制家族とよぶ。隠居制家族は家族内部の生活単位をとくに分離しない単世帯制家族とともに日本の家族のひとつの典型をなしていた。…

※「隠居制家族」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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