Cross-cultural Research Study on single parent families in Korea and Japan -Gender analysis about single parents unmarried, cohabitation, and married-

由于日本的生育率一直很低，单亲家庭的数量一直在增长。人们成为单亲家庭有不同的原因，如单身、分居或配偶死亡。他们中的许多人遭受社会偏见和经济困难。这项研究的目的是澄清是什么造成了对单亲家庭的印象。该调查于2007年7月在日本九州、近畿、东海、东京地区的大学生中进行，调查对象是近期有可能组建家庭的大学生。发放问卷1796份。收集到的纸张数量为1379张。回收率为76.8%。结果表明，受社会舆论负面影响且未学习过家庭研究的学生对单亲家庭有负面印象。为了尽量减少这些负面形象，有必要改善日本的家庭经济学教育，我们应该更多地教授家庭研究，包括单亲家庭。在韩国，调查问卷于2007年10月至2007年11月期间向2000名韩国大学生发放。有效问卷为1605份，占2000份问卷的80.3%。研究结果如下：1。在人生历程方面，接近80%的韩国大学生希望按照这个顺序经历就业、结婚、生孩子等人生事件。2. 单身父母的育儿观因未婚、离婚、配偶去世等原因而异。最负面的形象是未婚单身父母的育儿方式。最能被接受的形象是单亲父母，因为他们的配偶去世了。3. 韩国大学生对单亲家庭育儿的正面形象主要受公众对单亲家庭育儿形象的影响。研究表明，社会建构的价值观对大学生产生了强烈的影响。少

The number of one-parent families has been growing as Japan's fertility rate has been staying so low. People become one-parent families for different reasons such as their single status, separation or spouse's death. Many of them suffer from social prejudice as well as financial difficulties. The purpose of this research was to clarify what creates images toward one-parent families.The survey in Japan was delivered to university students, who have the potential to create a family in near future, in the Kyushu, Kinki, Tokai, and Tokyo districts in Japan in the month of July, 2007. The number of distributed questionnaire sheets was 1796. The number of collected sheets was 1379. The collection rate was 76.8%.It was clarified that the students who were influenced negatively by public opinions and had not studied family studies had negative images toward one-parent families. In order to minimize those negative images, it is necessary to improve home economics education in Japan in which we … More teach family studies including one-parent familiesIn Korea, the questionnaire sheets were delivered to 2000 Korean university students between October 2007 and November 2007. The valid responses were 1605, which was 80.3 % out of the 2000.The findings are as follows : 1. Regarding life course, close to 80% Korean university students wanted to experience life events such as getting a job, marriage and having a child in this particular order. 2. Image toward single parents' child rearing was different depending on the reasons to become single parents : unmarried, divorce, or spouses' death. The most negative image was given to unmarried single parents' child rearing. The most acceptable image was fallen to single parents because of their spouses' death. 3. The Korean university students' positive image toward single parents' child rearing was influenced mostly by the public image toward single parents' child rearing. It showed that socially constructed values make a strong impact on university students. Less