シングルマザー問題は存在するし、取り上げるのはいいのだが、日本文化論にしてしまっているーーーいやな予感
By Anna Fifield May 28
まして、こやつ。
“The Japanese economy has been getting worse and worse,
Land of rising sun rises again: Japanese economy on the up
Japan's economy has long been in decline, but figures published today show that things are finally turning around for the nation
Thursday 18 May 2017
日本経済がそこそこやっているから、”あんな”安倍ちゃんがいまだに支持されていると
言われているわけで・・・
and that’s hurting poor people, especially single mothers,” said Yukiko Tokumaru, who runs Child Poverty Action Osaka, a nongovernmental organizational that helps families in need.
日本経済がそこそこでも、経済的にシングルマザー家庭に厳しいのはたしかだろう。
The judgment and stigma that single mothers face in many countries are taken to another level in Japan, a homogeneous society where those who do not conform often try to hide their situations — even from their friends and wider family.
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How did you know they were worse than, for instance, U.S. ?
But Japan also has a culture that makes it difficult for women to work after having children — changing this is a key part of Abe’s solution to the country’s economic problems — and that makes life exponentially harder for single mothers.
How American women fell behind Japanese women in the workplace
By Danielle Paquette October 7, 2015
So, what happened?
Economists don't know for sure. The culprit could be a combination of changing attitudes toward mothers at work in Japan and relatively limited support for mothers at work in the United States.
Is Anna Fifield not reading Wapo?
Can't she read articles even in English?
“We have this culture of shame,” Tokumaru said.
LOL
Stereotypical explanation of things Japanese. It is like saying "this happens because Americans are cowboys"
Now 16 percent of Japanese children live below the poverty line, according to Health Ministry statistics, but among single-parent families, the rate hits 55 percent. Poverty rates in Osaka are among the worst.
1 in 5 US children live below poverty line, more than during Great Recession – report
Published time: 21 Jul, 2015 19:21
Nearly Half of American Children Living Near Poverty Line
[PDF]us children in single-mother families - Population Reference Bureau
Seven in 10 children living with a single mother are
poor or low income, compared to less than a third (32 percent)
of children living in other types of families
For younger children ages 0 to 8, results are even more striking.
In 2008, over three-quarters (77 percent) of young children
“If parents are working poor, their children are poor as well, and the cycle of poverty is handed down to the next generation,” Tomuro said.
True, but compare
The falling birthrate means that the population, currently 127 million, is set to drop below 100 million by 2060, and one-third of Japanese will be older than 65.
True, but compare
Some women are so embarrassed about a relationship breaking up that they don’t tell their friends, or even their parents, said Junko Terauchi, head of the Osaka Social Welfare Promotional Council, a nongovernmental group helping single mothers with advice and emergency food packages.
Other Japanese women brag about divorcing; "I am finally liberated from the son of bitch"
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“Single moms in poverty try really hard not to look poor,” she said, describing how they buy makeup and nail polish at the Japanese equivalent of a dollar store so they can keep up appearances. ”
But who wants to look poor?
Children of single or poor parents often are ostracized in their communities, Tokumaru said, noting that other parents do not want their children playing with children from a “bad house.”
Ostracized?
母子家庭 いじめ
There might be cases where children of single or poor parents are bullied but you can't say that that is often the case.
Note also that children of single mom often suffer from stereotypes in the United States.
The Single Mother Battle on Stereotypes
Posted on September 14, 2012 by Ending Violence | Filed Under: Battered Women's Support Services
by Marissa Hicks
“Single moms are the least likely women to get remarried.”
-“Children in single-parent families always have deficits, do poorly in school and suffer emotionally and behaviorally.”
-“Single-parent families are “broken homes.”
-“Children from single-parent families have lower self-esteem.”
-“Children raised by single moms actually resent and hate their mothers”
-“Single mothers are unable to give their sons the upbringing that they need and once they have to face the world, they prove to be failures since they lacked a man living at home.
-“A Child Needs a Father”. (The truth here is that a child needs family with a healthy relationship)
-“Youth raised by a single mom are at higher risk for substance abuse.”
-“Children are at greater risk of physical abuse in single mother households than in single father households.”
-“High Youth Crime Rates are a direct result of not having a father at home.”
-“Children fare worse in single parent homes.”
-“Single moms are lonely and have a hard time finding a mate.”
-“A child is better off raised by an unrelated married couple than by her own parents if her mother is single at the time she is born.”
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10 Ways the Children of Single Parents Defy All Stereotypes
In some ways, they do even better than the children of married parents
Posted Jul 15, 2015
Anna Fifield is just picking up the interviewees who'll tell what she wants to hear.
ーーー強いていうと、たぶん、アメリカ万歳のこんな文盲記者が立派な肩書といい給金もらって、おれのように愛国心が強くまた、真実を開示しているおっさんが貧乏暮らしというのは不公平な世界であると思うな、ちょっと。
