Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the beliefs on cross-gender collaborative infant rearing among fathers, mothers and teachers of infants at day-care centers. This study analyzed a part of data-set including answers of questionnaires from 6, 618 fathers, 8, 523 mothers, and 2, 356 teachers at day care centers in randomly selected cities in Japan. The results showed that(1)parents and teachers were inclined to agree with opinions for cross-gender collaborative infant-rearing in comparison to the pre-known average of ordinary adults. (2)Full-time teachers, parents working full-time and parents of children younger than three expressed more positive attitudes on the cross-gender collaboration. (3)The correlation coefficients between beliefs of fathers, mothers, and teachers at a day-care center were quite higher. Further investigations should be needed to reveal the reasons for the significant correlations of their beliefs.
