Features of the secondary parent-child relationship and adolescent development at the young men's house (neyako) in Toshijima Island, Mie Prefecture

在三叶县的东岛岛，有名为neyako的年轻男子之家。在离开初中之前，这些年轻人的父母会要求Neya-oya的父母为他们的孩子推广社会教育，让他们的孩子住在社区里。这些年轻人不仅与他们的亲生父母关系密切，而且还与次要父母(Neya-oya)关系密切。年轻人在家里吃完晚饭后，几乎每个星期六晚上都会聚集在年轻人的家(Neyako)，由neya-oya的父母给年轻人提供社会培训。他们学习宝贵的道德价值观，关于与社区中其他人的关系和对他人的尊重。此外，他们还获得了关于他们的职业可能性以及如何处理异性的有用建议。本研究旨在通过参与者-观察者方法和访谈法澄清Neyako的二级亲子关系和青少年发展的特征。研究结果如下：(1)在一个渔民家庭，一个年轻人在他父亲的渔船上工作，向他学习渔业技术。(2)由于指导和学习都是基于师徒关系，父亲可以对儿子采取更强大的地位。(3)通常比亲生父亲更接近年轻人年龄的父母能理解年轻人对父亲的矛盾感情，同时，内亚父母让年轻人理解父亲对儿子的感情。因此，Neya-oya的父母充当了年轻人和他父亲之间的调解人。这些结果是从支持青年发展的传统社会制度的角度来考虑的。

There are young men's houses called neyako in Toshijima Island, Mie Prefecture. Before leaving junior high school, the young men's parents ask Neya-oya parents to promote social education for their children to live in the community. The young men are closely related to not only their true parents but also the secondary parents (Neya-oya). After eating supper at home, the young people get together in the young men's house (neyako) almost every Saturday night At the neyako, social training is given to the young men by the Neya-oya parents. They learn precious moral values, about human relations with and respect for others in the community. Moreover they obtain useful advice on their career possibilities, and how to deal with the opposite sex.The present study aims to clarify features of the secondary parent-child relationship and adolescent development at the neyako using a participant-observer methodology and the interview method. The following results were obtained : (1) In a fisherman's family, a young man works on his father's fishing boat and learns fishery technology from him. (2) Because the guidance and learning is all based on the master-apprentice relationship, the father can take a stronger position against his son. (3) Neya-oya parents, who are usually nearer the young man's age than his true father can understand the young person's ambivalent feelings to his father At the same time, Neya-oya parents make the young man understand his father's feelings to his son. As a result, Neya-oya parents serve as a mediator between the young man and his father. These results were considered from the viewpoint of a traditional social system that supports youth development.