Korean Families Yesterday and Today

Korean Families Yesterday and Today
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Korean Families Yesterday and Today



Korean Families Yesterday and TodayHyunjoon Park and Hyeyoung Woo, Editors
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Korean families have changed significantly during the last few decades in their composition, structure, attitudes, and function. Delayed and forgone marriage, fertility decline, and rising divorce rates are just a few examples of changes that Korean families have experienced at a rapid pace, more dramatic than in many other contemporary societies. Moreover, the increase of marriages between Korean men and foreign women has further diversified Korean families. Yet traditional norms and attitudes toward gender and family continue to shape Korean men and women's family behaviors.

Korean Families Yesterday and Today portrays diverse aspects of the contemporary Korean families and, by explicitly or implicitly situating contemporary families within a comparative historical perspective, reveal how the past of Korean families evolved into their current shapes. While the study of families can be approached in many different angles, our lens focuses on families with children or young adults who are about to forge family through marriage and other means. This focus reflects that delayed marriage and declined fertility are two sweeping demographic trends in Korea, affecting family formation. Moreover, "intensive" parenting has characterized Korean young parents and therefore, examining change and persistence in parenting provides important clues for family change in Korea.

This volume should be of interest not only to readers who are interested in Korea but also to those who want to understand broad family changes in East Asia in comparative perspective.


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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Historical Contexts1. The Evolution of the Korean Family
Diversity in Parenting and Children’s Education2. The Strength of Information
3. Reshaping Educational Strategies
Family and Children’s Education and Well-Being4. Consequences of Educational Assortative Mating for Children’s Academic Achievement in South Korea
5. Does Marriage Matter for Children?
6. Does Grandparents’ Education Matter for Grandchildren’s Education in South Korea?
7. Living Arrangements and Obesity among Korean College Students
Gender and Family8. Educational Background, Gender-Role Attitudes, and Parenting Time for Young Children
9. Gender Roles of Married Women in Korean Immigrant Families in the United States
Family Formation and Alternative Family Life10. Who Gets Married? Parent’s Household Income, Individual’s Education, and Entry into Marriage in South Korea
11. Integrating Men’s Gender Roles and Fertility Attitudes into the Study of Low Fertility in South Korea
12. Kwinong kwich’on kwihyang (Back to the Land) Discourse of Young South Korean Families
Contributors
Index

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