— Overview
The essay treats the family as a physical and emotional shelter in a faster, more various life, and argues that a common claim — that modernization has simply reduced what families do — misses the point. Because the people closest to us are also the hardest to see clearly, a family problem can stay hidden until it is late to repair. Family life education, in this account, is an educational activity that brings overlooked imbalance back into view and toward a healthier household.
A single agreed definition is hard to fix, the writer says, because the work has so many sides. In 1987, Arcus called it a process of teaching the resources and information skills needed to raise the quality of family life. In 1993, Yoo Young-ju and Jeong Min-ja treated it as a lifelong developmental activity that seeks to solve problems and to open each member’s potential, so that the quality of life of people in society is improved as a whole.
In 1994, Oh Yun-ja treated it as a concept that covers all educational work tied to family life. The essay’s own combined definition is a family-welfare-oriented learning of interpersonal skill: not only to repair a problem, but to develop the potential and the resources a family already has, so that every member can live a happier family life. The program the writer then proposes is for grandparent-grandchild families.
Citing a Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Statistics Korea survey, it places 45,225 such households, and 153,117 people, in 2000, where the grandparents were 65 or older and the grandchildren were under 18; 58,101 households and 196,076 people in 2005, a rise of 28 percent in five years; and 66,789 households in 2009, a further rise of 15 percent in four years. A 24 April 2018 piece in the Gwangnam Ilbo is cited on the need for a wider culture of sharing.
This page stays with those dated counts and does not add a later official tally. The essay also cites figures, without a year in the extracted text, that about 70 percent of grandparents who take on the care of a grandchild feel worse health and more fatigue than before, and that more than 80 percent say their economic situation has worsened. The proposed goals are that members understand their family and can look at it kindly; that they know and practice a clearer way of talking; that they can understand and accept one another; and that grandparents learn, and can use, a way of raising a grandchild that fits the present.
The program is planned as eight Saturday meetings, two periods of 45 minutes each, at a community welfare office in a rural area the writer leaves unnamed, for families formed after a parent’s divorce or departure, and led by someone trained in parent education, with other specialists invited as the session requires. A healthy family, the recap says, is not a fixed form; it is made when trust and a healthy exchange sit among the members.
— Contents and key concepts
Definitions, and official counts left in their years
The essay treats the family as a shelter in a faster life, and argues that a family problem can stay hidden, among the people closest to us, until it is late to repair. Family life education, here, brings overlooked imbalance back into view and toward a healthier household. A single agreed definition is hard to fix. In 1987, Arcus called it a process of teaching the resources and information skills needed to raise the quality of family life. In 1993, Yoo Young-ju and Jeong Min-ja treated it as a lifelong developmental activity; in 1994, Oh Yun-ja treated it as covering all educational work tied to family life.
Citing a Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Statistics Korea survey, the essay places 45,225 grandparent-grandchild households, and 153,117 people, in 2000, where the grandparents were 65 or older and the grandchildren were under 18; 58,101 households and 196,076 people in 2005; and 66,789 households in 2009. A 24 April 2018 piece in the Gwangnam Ilbo is cited on a wider culture of sharing. This page stays with those dated counts and does not add a later official tally.
A proposed program for grandparent-grandchild families
The program is planned as eight Saturday meetings, two periods of 45 minutes each, at a community welfare office in a rural area the writer leaves unnamed, for families formed after a parent’s divorce or departure. The goals are that members understand their family and can look at it kindly; that they know and practice a clearer way of talking, which matters because the gap of years is wider than in a parent-child home; that they can understand and accept one another; and that grandparents learn a way of raising a grandchild that fits the present.
Early sessions begin with the grandparents naming a problem, then bring the grandchild in to draw and talk about shared pain and happier memory, to test how far each can accept the other, and to trade places in a familiar quarrel. Later meetings look at the many shapes a family can take, and ask each side to name the other’s strengths. A healthy family, the recap says, is not a fixed form; it is made when trust and a healthy exchange sit among the members. The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
Sources
- Family as shelter; hidden problems. FLE as educational work toward a healthier household; hard to fix in one definition. Arcus 1987 (resources and information skills); Yoo Young-ju and Jeong Min-ja 1993 (lifelong developmental activity); Oh Yun-ja 1994 (all educational work tied to family life). Combined definition: family-welfare-oriented interpersonal skill, repairing problems and developing potential. Proposed program for grandparent-grandchild families. MOGEF and KOSTAT counts, left in period: 2000, 45,225 households / 153,117 people (grandparents 65+, grandchildren under 18); 2005, 58,101 / 196,076 (28% in five years); 2009, 66,789 households (15% in four years). Gwangnam Ilbo 24 April 2018. Essay’s undated figures: about 70% of caregiving grandparents feel worse health and more fatigue; more than 80% say their economic situation worsened. Goals: understand and view the family kindly; practice talk; accept one another; present-day grandchild-rearing. Eight Saturday meetings, two 45-minute periods, unnamed rural welfare office; families after a parent’s divorce or departure. Healthy family from trust and exchange, not a fixed form. This page stays with those dated counts and does not add a later official tally.
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