Symposium: Economic Stratification and the Transformation of the Modern Family:

On the Polarization of Child Rearing in Japan

Abstract

The 2008 symposium invited three researchers who have conducted research on parents in Japan exploring the situation of childrearing by parents whose position in the stratification of the economy is accompanied by poverty. Gotou Noriko presented the transformation of the parents' economic situation and their attitude toward childrearing. Kataoka Emi presented the thinking and tactics of upper class parents eager to have their child enter private schools. And Yuzawa Naomi presented the actual conditions of childrearing by parents in poverty.