Fathering Japan, an NPO, asked 343 students, mainly university students in the Tokyo metropolitan area, to learn about the thoughts of students in the Reiwa era regarding marriage and child-rearing. Was done.
According to the survey, 52.8% of the students answered that they have a strong negative image of child-rearing (it seems to be difficult or painful), which is more than half of the current image of child-rearing.As for the image of their own marriage, 63.6% answered that they want to get married and have children, while 9.6% answered that they should remain single.Awareness of gender role division (husband works outside, wife protects the family) is "No longer such an era" 58.9%, "Gender role division is no longer" 26.2%, more than 8% are gender role division I'm not conscious.
More than 52.5% of the respondents are positive about their own image of child-rearing, with 31.5% saying "I want to do it well if I have children" and 8% saying "I want to do it as much as possible".In addition, 82.8% answered that they would like to take childcare leave when a child is born.Furthermore, 71.1% of the respondents answered that they would like to take a course or training that can teach them about marriage, childbirth, child-rearing, etc., not only for professional career education but also for so-called "life career education". The high needs and interests of the students were highlighted.
