Abstract
By about 16,940,000 people, the number of the less than 15-year-old children in the 2012 fiscal year decreases every year during 36 years. There are many homes where a double-income household increases now and a mother and a father participate in housekeeping or child-rearing. Therefore, the dwelling space which correspondence of the device which can perform housekeeping and child-rearing comfortably, a child's injury, the dirt of everyday life, etc. can reduce as much as possible is called for. From the result of "the questionnaire about the building materials of the residence for child-rearing" carried out as part of activity with the Architectural Institute of Japan Kanto branch material construction special committee uni-versal design building materials WG, Consideration of the result in building-materials selection is performed, and since the building materials for child-rearing residences needed from now on were examined, the part is reported. For example, what kind of indoor dirt being worrisome and the thing mentioned and worried were made to choose to three about each of sitting room, a kitchen, and a children's room. In sitting room, there was little difference between men and women of consciousness, and there was a tendency for peeling of wallpaper and floor dirt to be worrisome. In kitchen, the woman besides the dirt of a flooring material tended to have cared also about the dirt of wallpaper. Although the tendency for a male to worry the dirt of a crack and a flooring material was seen in the children's room, as for the woman, it was the feature that opinions, such as a wall, a floor, a crack, etc. which the surface of a wall became dirty, are divided. The tendency about which the crack which the child gave as a whole as well as dirt cares was seen.
