Abstract
The ideas on home lives of junior and senior high school
students were investigated by using a questionnaire on 50 items.
The purpose of this investigation is to search for educational
contents for consumers. Students would be able to make better
decisions by receiving an education pertaining to their ideas on
home lives. The following results were obtained from the ques-
tionnaire :
1. Their ideas on home lives are rather conservative. For
example, they think that the house keeper should be the mother,
meals should be made in the home, and simple clothes should be
made in the home. About 10-20 percent of students, however,
have a modern ideas on home lives.
2. They choose and purchase clothes by making sure of the
size. If they will live alone, they themselves will do their own
{amily affairs.
3. They choose and purchase foods by making sure of quali‐
ty and the manufacturing date, but they scarcely have rational
knowledge Of cooking and of administering foods.
4. Giris have mOre steady ideas on the home lives than boys,
scince the giris study a homemaking course.
