Family Diversity and Child Contact System: Thinking Children's Right Based on the Social Research

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01412
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 05060:Civil law-related
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University (2021); Osaka Institute of Technology (2019-2020)
• Principal Investigator: Takada Kyoko 広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(社), 准教授 (70569722)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 藤間 公太 国立社会保障・人口問題研究所, 社会保障応用分析研究部, 第2室長 (60755916)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 面会交流 / 離婚 / 親子法 / 子どもの権利 / 多様な家族 / 実態調査 / 英国法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In 2019, we conducted research at th related institutions in the United Kingdom and then, we invited Elizabeth Coe, the director of the National Association of Child Contact Centres in the UK and held a workshop at an international conference in Taiwan as well as an open symposium in Tokyo. The contents of the symposium were published after they were translated into Japanese.
As for the survey of the actual conditions of children-parents situation after divorce in Japan, we conducted a Web survey (preparation in FY2019, implementation / interim report in FY2020, publication of analysis in FY2021) and a hearing survey (FY2021). We held workshops at academic conferences to report the survey results. I organized the expanded research meetings (in 2020 and 2021), which included interdisciplinary research collaborators, and there we discussed the related issues from cross-disciplinary perspectives and clarified our next steps to further examine the child contact system.

Free Research Field

民法・家族法

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本課題研究では，英国の面会交流支援制度の展開を，実地の関係する諸機関を訪問することで多角的に検討し，英国における面会交流支援の制度構築を実態レベルで日本において紹介することができた。また，社会学の研究者との共同研究により，法的取り決め後の経緯を別居後5年以上経過する親子の実態調査を行い，分析することで，法制度整備にはさらなる実態調査が必要であることを明らかにした。将来にわたる親子支援を可能にする法制度を検討するために，実態把握のための社会学，家族構成員全員の福祉を検討するための福祉学や心理学，医学などの視座に立ち，実質的に学際的な検討が必要であることを明らかにした。