What do daughters think when considering their parents’ thinking? : Interview analysis of unmarried women in the Tokyo area

FUCHU, Akiko

府中, 明子

[ABSTRACT]This conference presentation discusses the relationship between parents and their grown-up daughters: how the parents’ thinking and behavior influence those of their daughters who wish to get married. In Japan, people, even as adults, are inclined to seek their parents’ agreement when it comes to marriage. This paper focuses on how the consciousness and/or behavior of the parents work for their daughters in the process of encounter, dating, and marriage; how influential the parents’ wishes are on their daughters’ decision on whether to get married. The research method used is the interview with seven unmarried Japanese women between the ages of 25 and 34 living in Tokyo. They were asked about their love experience and their view of marriage. The author particularly focused on their remarks about the relationship between themselves and their parents. In the interview, these women often implied that their family was their role model. They said that they would like to emulate their parents’ way of working (independent business, part time job, regular employment, etc.), and to have economic environment, and have a similar number of children as them. In terms of emotions, however, they related how their parents’ love and marriage experiences were negative examples for them. They wanted to avoid the marital problems that their parents had faced including poor relationship between husband and wife or that between a wife and her parents-in- law. Thus, the result shows that the decision-making process of marriage for the daughters is influenced by the circumstances of their family.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/107896/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/107896/ceresIntlSympo-24-P675.pdf

Chiba University. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing

千葉大学環境リモートセンシング研究センター

Presentation

Proceedings of the CEReS international symposium = CEReS国際シンポジウム資料集

24

675

679

2016-11-21

eng

publisher

Proceedings of the symposium on environmental remote sensing