Crisis of Meaning in Modern Child Rearing

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  • 現代社会における子育ての「意味」の危機
  • ゲンダイ シャカイ ニ オケル コソダテ ノ イミ ノ キキ

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Why must parents rear their children' has become the fundamental question that family sociologists have to deal with. G.W.F.Hegel discussed the prototype of modern child rearing. He stressed that parent-child relations disappear when offspring become adult. There are two traits of modern parents-child relationships. One is that parents have to find meaning in child rearing because parents connot expect financial compensation from children for their efforts. the major motivation of child rearing for parents in modern society is “love”. And, because parents' love is incomplete they could believe in the presence of love. In recent years longevity and 'schoolization' cause crisis in the meaning of child rearing for parents. In order to be convinced by the presence of loving relationship with children, parents feel the need to be evaluated by adult offspring and public such as school system. Additionally, parents often feel the pressure in child rearing. Therefor, parents begin to questioning why they must rear their children.

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