Teenage Pregnancy and its Support System in Korea

2014 ◽  
pp. 137-163
Author(s):  
Naoko Sôma ◽  
Jiyoon Park ◽  
Sun-Hee Baek ◽  
Akemi Morita
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Unmarried Mothers ◽  
Family Support Act

While family structure continues to diversify in Korean society, society’s rejection of unmarried mothers continues to be a strong obstacle. However, Korean teenage mothers increasingly are deciding to raise their own children and live their daily lives in communities that hold biases and express rejection towards them. At present, the Single-Parent Family Support Act is central to the development of support policies for unmarried mothers, but as pointed out in this study, it is important to implement detailed, individualized, comprehensive, and continual assistance, not limited to those who opt for childrearing but also towards all unmarried mothers who opt for adoption. While raising one’s own child, it is important to provide long-term and continual support and support that helps the recipient foresee how she can step her way up to independence, rather than short-term and sporadic handouts.

Reflections on Entitlement to a Child in Australian Women's Journals 1947–1987

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet Harper
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Unmarried Mothers ◽  
Alternative Type ◽  
Illegitimate Children ◽  
Women's Journals

In the Macquarie Dictionary, a family is defined as “parents and their children, whether dwelling together or not”. To be a couple with no children puts one outside of this category when family is defined in that way. Indeed, it is only recently that the term “single parent family” has been coined and accepted as an alternative type of family structure. Prior to the seventies the reference was to the “single mother and her child” and earlier still, “unmarried mothers” and “illegitimate children” — “fillius nullis”, child of nobody, until the Children's Equality of Status Act in 1977.Society still appears to hold the nuclear family as the ideal2 that is a male and a female, preferably married with one or more children. A couple remain a couple and are not considered a family until such time as they have a child. For those who wish to have a child but are unable to have one, this constitutes a painful situation, but one towards which society feels compassion and in the view of the author, supports the notion that couples are entitled to a child.

Parental separation and offspring morbidity in adulthood: a descriptive study of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966

2021 ◽  
pp. 140349482110142
Author(s):  
Heidi Varis ◽  
Maria Hagnäs ◽  
Ilona Mikkola ◽  
Tanja Nordström ◽  
Katri Puukka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Parental Separation ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Drug Problems ◽  
Offspring Health

Aims: Rates of parental separation have increased dramatically in recent decades. We evaluated the association of individuals’ childhood family structure with their somatic health over 46 years of follow-up. Methods: Data were drawn from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort, an ongoing project in which 12,058 participants born in 1966 have been followed from their 24th gestational week. Based on information supplied at age 14 years, family structure was categorised as ‘single-parent family’ and ‘two-parent family’. The anthropometric information, data from blood samples and medical history were collected from postal questionnaires and clinical examinations routinely performed at the ages of 31 and 46 years. Results: The study population comprised a total of 10,895 individuals; 85% ( n=9253) were offspring of two-parent families and 15% ( n=1642) of single-parent families. Type 2 diabetes ( P=0.032) or prediabetes ( P=0.007), psychoactive drug problems ( P<0.001) and sexually transmitted diseases ( P<0.001) were more common in the single-parent family group than in the participants from two-parent families. In addition, among men back diseases ( P=0.002), and among women hypertension ( P=0.003) and ovary infection ( P=0.024) were more frequent in individuals affected by parental death than in those from two-parent families. Conclusions: Our results indicate the association of childhood family structure with offspring morbidity during 46 years’ follow-up. The lifetime morbidity was observed to be higher among offspring from a single-parent family compared to two-parent family offspring. Public and scientific concern about the consequences of parental separation on the offspring’ health exist, therefore support from healthcare professionals and society is warranted.

scholarly journals Family Structure and Secondary Exposure to Violence in the Context of Varying Neighborhood Risks and Resources

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312199294
Author(s):  
Haley Stritzel ◽  
Chelsea Smith Gonzalez ◽  
Shannon E. Cavanagh ◽  
Robert Crosnoe
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Exposure To Violence ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Multilevel Data ◽  
Socioemotional Functioning ◽  
Secondary Exposure ◽  
Single Parent Household ◽  
Neighborhood Contexts ◽  
Short And Long Term

Secondary exposure to violence in the community is a prevalent developmental risk with implications for youths’ short- and long-term socioemotional functioning. This study used longitudinal, multilevel data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods to consider how family structure, including parental instability, is associated with youths’ secondary exposure to violence across diverse neighborhood contexts. Results showed that both living in a stable single-parent household and experiencing parental instability were associated with greater secondary exposure to violence compared with living in a stable two-parent household. The associations between having a single parent or experiencing parental instability and secondary exposure to violence were especially strong in neighborhoods with high levels of crime and strong neighborhood ties.

scholarly journals Single-parent family structure and sleep problems in black and white adolescents

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy M. Troxel ◽  
Laisze Lee ◽  
Martica Hall ◽  
Karen A. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
White Adolescents ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Black And White Adolescents

Family Structure and Leaving the Nest: A Social Resource Perspective

1994 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Proportional Hazards ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Canadian Youth ◽  
Home Leaving ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Reasons For Staying ◽  
At Home

This article focuses on the role of family structure as a form of social capital (Coleman 1988) in the timing of and pathways for home-leaving behavior among youths. Using data from the 1987 Canadian Youth Foundation Survey, bivariate analyses of reasons for staying and leaving the nest and proportional hazards modeling of age at home-leaving support and extend previous research demonstrating the importance of family structure. Financial, human, and cultural capital, as well as sex and region, are also examined. The most striking finding is that youths exposed to biological and single-parent family environments are between five and six times as likely to remain at home than those exposed to stepfamily structures for the ages 15 to 24, net of the other variables. Interestingly, young adults living in both stepparent and single-parent families are more likely to report leaving home due to conflictual parent-child relations, and to leave the nest to achieve independence rather than to marry or pursue additional schooling. The findings are discussed in terms of their long-term consequences for youths.

Childhood Family Structure and Personality Disorders in Adulthood

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Kantojärvi ◽  
M. Joukamaa ◽  
J. Miettunen ◽  
K. Läksy ◽  
A. Herva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Population Sample ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Only Child ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractBackground.The association between childhood family structure and sociodemographic characteristics and personality disorders (PDs) in a general population sample was studied.Methods.This study is a substudy of the prospective Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort Project with 1588 young adult subjects. The case-finding methods according to the DSM-III-R criteria for PDs were: (1) Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) for 321 cases who participated in a 2-phase field study, (2) Finnish Hospital Discharge Register data, and (3) analysis of the patient records in public outpatient care in 1982–1997. Statistical analyses were performed on the association between PDs and family background factors.Results.Altogether 110 (7.0%) of the subjects had at least one probable or definite PD. After adjusting for confounders (gender, parental social class and parental psychiatric disorder) the results indicated that single-parent family type in childhood was associated with cluster B PDs in adulthood. Being an only child in childhood was associated with cluster A PDs. No special childhood risk factors were found for cluster C PDs.Conclusions.Results suggest that single-parent family type at birth and being an only child in the 1960s are associated with PD in adulthood. Further studies are needed to explore the psychosocial aspects of family environment which may nowadays promote vulnerability to PDs in adulthood.

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY STRUCTURE AND AGE OF SEXUAL DEBUT AMONG YOUNG PERSONS IN JAMAICA

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-187
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Oshi ◽  
Jordan Mckenzie ◽  
Martin Baxter ◽  
Royelle Robinson ◽  
Stephan Neil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Sexual Debut ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Early Sexual Debut ◽  
Single Parent Families ◽  
Multi Stage

SummaryThere is a high and increasing proportion of single-parent families in Jamaica. This has raised concerns about the potential impact of single-parent families on the social, cognitive and behavioural development of children, including their sexual relationships. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between being raised in a single-parent family and age of sexual debut among young people in Jamaica. The study was cross-sectional in design, and based on a multi-stage sampling procedure. The study was conducted in July/September 2016. The study sample comprised 233 respondents (110 males and 123 females) aged from 18 to 35 years (mean 26.37 years; SD 5.46). Respondents completed a self-administered questionnaire with questions on socio-demographic characteristics, family structure, sexual debut and current sexual behaviour. Ninety-seven (41.7%) respondents grew up in single-parent families. A total of 201 (86.3%) had had sex (102 males and 99 females). Their mean age of sexual debut was 15.51 years (SD 3.41). Sixty-five (32.3%) had early sexual debut (<16 years). Respondents from single-parent families were more likely to have had early sexual debut (56.9%; n=37) compared with those from two-parent families (43.1%, n=28; p=0.004). Only 44.6% (n=29) of those who experienced early sexual debut used a condom during their first sexual encounter compared with 73% (n=100) of those who had a later sexual debut (≥16 years; p=<0.001). A single-father family structure was a significant predictor of early sexual debut (AOR 5.5; 95%CI: 1.1–25.8). The study found a significant association between single-parent family structure and age of sexual debut.

scholarly journals Family Support and Connection Groups: Long-Term Benefits for Inner-City Children?

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Tolan ◽  
Michael Schoeny ◽  
Deborah Gorman-Smith ◽  
David Henry
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Family Support
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