Living Arrangements of Single Parents and Their Children in South Korea

Park, Hyunjoon; Choi, Jaesung; Jo, Hyejeong

doi:10.1080/01494929.2015.1073653

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“…Korean fathers now live in an era in which active caregiving is viewed as essential in order to be regarded as a good father. The relatively low divorce rate in Korea (Park et al, 2016) means that most children are growing up in two-parent married households in which fathers are actively engaged in caregiving. Given the recent societal trends regarding fathers' role in family life, this study makes an important contribution to the literature on understanding these processes in Korean families.…”

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“…In addition, the proportion of children with divorced parents remains very low in Korea compared to many Western countries. In 2010, only 6% of Korean children under aged 18 lived with a divorced parent (Park, Choi, & Jo, 2016); as such, the majority of Korean children are growing up in two-parent households in which Korean fathers are more actively engaged in parenting than ever before. Despite public support of active, engaged fathering in Korea, there is a dearth of research on the association between fathers' parenting behaviors and child development.…”

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Longitudinal associations of family stressors, fathers’ warmth, and Korean children’s externalizing behaviors.

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Dotterer²

2018

Journal of Family Psychology

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This study examined the indirect mechanisms linking family stressors (i.e., negative family life events, paternal psychological distress, and couple conflict) to children’s later externalizing behavior problems through fathers’ warm parenting behaviors among Korean families. Three waves of longitudinal data were drawn from the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC) and included 1,784 families (fathers Mage = 36.27, mothers Mage = 33.79, and children Mage = 3.23). Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling and showed that negative family life events were associated with children’s later externalizing problems via higher levels of couple conflict and lower levels of paternal warmth. In addition, family life events were related to children’s subsequent externalizing problems via higher levels of fathers’ psychological distress (i.e., depression and low self-efficacy) and lower levels of paternal warmth. Paternal psychological distress and couple conflict were indirectly linked to children’s externalizing problems through fathers’ warmth. Results show that fathers’ characteristics and experiences are related to fathers’ positive parenting, which in turn contribute to children’s behavior problems. These findings underscore the importance of considering individual, relational, and contextual family stressors through which fathers’ parenting contributes to children’s later behavioral outcomes.

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Longitudinal associations of family stressors, fathers’ warmth, and Korean children’s externalizing behaviors.

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Dotterer²

2018

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…In Latin America, in fact, the majority of single mothers coreside with their parents (Esteve, García‐Román, and Lesthaeghe 2012). In East Asia, around 30 percent of Japanese (Shirahase and Raymo 2014), 20 percent of Taiwanese (Chen 2016), and 10 percent of Korean (Park, Choi, and Jo 2016) single mothers coreside with their parents. In the United States, 20 percent of the children of unmarried and 10 percent of the children of divorced, separated, or widowed mothers live in multigenerational households (Pilkauskas and Cross 2018).…”

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Single Motherhood and Multigenerational Coresidence in Europe

Hogendoorn¹,

Härkönen²

2023

Population & Development Rev

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Single motherhood has increased throughout Europe. Single mothers assume the dual role of provider and caregiver and often need external support from public policies or kin to meet their needs. Research has focused primarily on public policies, disregarding the role of kin support—and of multigenerational coresidence in particular. This study provides the first detailed description of single mothers’ multigenerational coresidence in Europe. To do so, we combine census and survey microdata from 31 European countries. The data reveal large geographic variation in single mothers’ coresidence. Whereas coresidence is a rare and temporary living arrangement in Northern and Western Europe, it is common and more permanent in Southern, Central, and especially Eastern Europe. At the same time, coresidence has declined in almost all countries with data from the past half‐century. These findings suggest large and persistent variation in kin support for single mothers and thus question the assumption of its marginal role in Europe.

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“…A critical limitation of the existing literature is its insensitivity to potential socioeconomic variation in the availability and strength of family ties. A study of divorced single mothers and their children in Korea shows that single mothers with university education, who are supposedly more advantaged than single mothers without university education, are more likely to live with their own parents (after divorce) than their counterparts without university education ( Park, Choi, and Jo 2016 ). This finding may suggest that family support might actually be more available to those who are relatively advantaged than to those who are in more desperate need.…”

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Introduction to the special collection on family changes and inequality in East Asia

Park¹

2021

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BACKGROUNDEast Asian societies have experienced rapid social changes, among which the extraordinary expansion of higher education for both women and men, rising economic inequality, and increasing labor market uncertainty should be particularly relevant to family changes. At the same time, gender inequality and traditional gender norms still prevail and shape family life in the region. The eight articles in this special collection share the common interest of how families in East Asia have evolved against a backdrop of growing economic inequality and persistent gender inequality -among other key forces affecting family life -across a variety of family-related outcomes: from singlehood, marriage intentions, and dating, through fertility, the time use of adolescents and parents with young children, and women's careers, to intergenerational coresidence and the life satisfaction of older parents. RESULTSOur eight studies look at connected but distinctive outcomes related to family life, and collectively demonstrate the relevance of increased labor market uncertainty and the continuing male breadwinner norm to emerging patterns of family behavior in East Asia. They illustrate specific ways in which East Asian families are shaped by the joint forces of economic inequality and gender inequality. CONTRIBUTIONThis volume highlights the complexity and heterogeneity of contemporary East Asian families, inviting family and demography researchers to conduct more studies on underresearched family behaviors such as cohabitation and nonmarital births and to revisit the conventional perception that family ties are strong and family support is readily available in East Asia.

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Living Arrangements of Single Parents and Their Children in South Korea

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Longitudinal associations of family stressors, fathers’ warmth, and Korean children’s externalizing behaviors.

Longitudinal associations of family stressors, fathers’ warmth, and Korean children’s externalizing behaviors.

Single Motherhood and Multigenerational Coresidence in Europe

Introduction to the special collection on family changes and inequality in East Asia

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