2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

An empirical study about "the independence support" to guarantee the development of the children in the one parent family

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19530540
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Social welfare and social work studies
Research Institution	Kobe Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	KAMBARA Fumiko Kobe Gakuin University, 人文学部, 教授 (50186178)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	MOTOMURA Megumi 和歌山大学, 教育学部, 講師 (80347658)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	ひとり親家族 / 子どもの発達 / 自立支援 / インタビュー調査 / 子どもの生活支援 / 高校生調査
Research Abstract	First, 50 children raised in single-parent family were interviewed in order to clarify their living conditions. The result showed that most of the children accept the circumstances of each family as one -parent. Second, the investigation named "the lifestyles of high school students and their consciousness" was carried out through questionnaire method. Two groups ; "high school students raised by one parent" and "high school students raised by two parents" were established and compared each other. As a result, no significant difference regarding the quality of parenthood was found between the two groups. However, the result revealed that high school students raised by one parent receive less allowance, spend more time on part-time job but less on school work and less hope to go to college compared to high school students raised by two parents.