Japanese Childcare Support and Mother-Harassment
Misa Morita
Kochi University Humanities and Social Sciences Cluster Education Unit
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the reasons why many Japanese mothers feel anxiety about childcare in spite of advances in childcare policies. This study particularly focused on how citizens and mothers see each other. Previous studies have also debated mothers’ anxiety about childcare. However, it is also important to investigate the attitude toward childcare of Japanese citizens now.
This study focused on three points:
(1) Compared with non-Japanese, Japanese mothers do not ask for help in taking care of children. Japanese mothers are engaged in childcare alone.
(2) Most of the mothers feel nervous when they go with small children to public places. And they feel mental fatigue toward co-workers when they have to be absent from work for their children. (3) Actually, some women feel that they have encountered harassment. However, others object that it is
because they do not fulfill public duties as mothers.
According to these findings, this study suggests two points. Firstly, we should question the reality about mothers' roles in childcare. Social agreements such as “Children should be raised by society” have been formed these days. However, social norms still states that it is mothers who are chiefly responsible for taking care of children. Secondly, to solve mothers’ anxiety in childcare, we have to pay attention to a social ill that Japanese society can not afford to accept children who need someone’s help and who help them.
Keyword
childcare support, low birthrate , “mother-harassment”, Abstract(
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