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Influence of Adolescent Female Single-parent's Stress on the Sustainability of Education: To investigate the moderating Effect on the Single-parent Family Policy Support for child rearing

청소년 여성 한부모의 스트레스가 학업지속에 미치는 영향: 아동 양육비 및 돌봄 지원 한부모가족 정책의 조절효과 검증

  • 이윤정 (호서대학교 사회복지학부)
  • Received : 2017.04.01
  • Accepted : 2017.06.14
  • Published : 2017.08.30
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Abstract

The Korean government implemented better support for adolescent single-parent families by expanding the coverage of the Single-parent Family Support Act in 2010. In order to understand the effect, this study verified the moderating effect of the single-parent family policy's support for child rearing in the context of adolescent female single-parent's stress levels and education sustainability. This study utilized part of the National Youth Policy Institute's 'Research on the Actual Condition of the Adolescent Pregnancy, Birth and Rearing Children'. Participants of the study were 248 adolescent single-parents aged 24 and below. The findings and discussion of this study are as follows. First, the stress level of adolescent female single-parent in continuing studies was lower than those for discontinued studies. Students who discontinued their education in the middle of studies showed an increase in life stress level relative to age because they had a low level of education and had discontinued studies before pregnancy. Second, the public nanny service has been verified as an element to increase the continuation of education by controlling the level of stress. It is advisable to fortify and expand the scope of support for childcare services in the form of a study assistant or child education assistant. Last, adolescent single-parent childcare subsidies have been verified as a direct factor that raised the meaningful level of education continuity potential to a meaningful standard that can be seen as a more effective method than general policy support for single-parent families.

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