Forming Household and sustaining them are in crisis in Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Rates of late or no marriage as well as divorce are going up birth rates have plummeted to below replacement. Intergenerational continuity and care of both young and elderly are seriously compromised. Repercussions on society are worrisome and take the form of absolute decline in labor force and national populations, rapid ageing of the population and increasing dependency ratios that threaten national social welfare systems. As a response to these national calamities, householding is going global. Spouses are being searched for abroad. Children, with their mothers, arc sent overseas for education, leaving fathers behind to work to finance them. Hundreds of thousands of foreign domestic helpers and caretakers of children and the elderly are being recruited for daily reproduction of households. In the absence of support from their progeny, seniors are retiring abroad as a way of subsisting on fixed incomes. Variations in global householding are pronounced among the three societies, revealing how local contexts matter in a global age. Yet the similarities in responses are even greater. Together all of the elements of global householding present a fundamentally new moment in East Asia history that challenges ideas of citizenship and social homogeneity that have long been associated with the nation-state in this world region. They also potentially offer amelioration to social crises emanating from the current demographic transition embedded in declining capacities of local households in social reproduction.