이혼 여성한부모가족의 성인 딸이 경험하는 문제와 대처방안에 관한 연구

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국한부모가정연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 한부모가정연구 / 1권 / 1호
· 저자명 : 김나희

목차

Ⅰ. 서 론
Ⅱ. 이혼으로 인한 여성 한부모가족의 비혼여성이 경험하는 문제
Ⅲ. 개인의 전략적 대응 전략
Ⅳ. 결론 및 논의
참고문헌

초록

본 연구는 이혼으로 인한 여성 한부모가족의 비혼 여성(딸)이 어떤 문제를 경험하고 있는지 살펴보았다. 비혼 여성이 어떻게 주체적으로 문제를 대응해 나가고 있는지 여성주의적 관점으로 고찰하고자 하였다. 주요한 결과는 다음과 같다. 이혼으로 인한 여성한부모가족의 20세 이상의 비혼 여성(딸)이 경험하는 문제는 정상가족이데올로기와 사회의 구조적인 문제로부터 비롯되어 있었다. 첫째, 정상가족이데올로기로 인한 사회적인 편견과 가족 내 편견은 이혼으로 인한 여성 한부모가족을 결손가족 규정하는 것으로 조장하며, 이혼한 여성뿐 아니라 그의 딸에게도 영향을 끼쳤다. 사회적인 편견은 친구관계, 남자친구 혹은 남자친구 집안과의 관계, 지역 주민과의 관계, 직장 상사와의 관계 등에서 “아버지가 부재한 가족에서 자란 딸” “이혼한 어머니에게 양육을 받은 딸”로 규정되어지기 때문에 딸은 갈등을 겪는다. 딸은 가족 내 편견으로 인해 강박적으로 사회에서 모범적인 모습을 보여야 한다고 생각하는 것, 부모의 이혼 후 떨어져 사는 아버지와 딸의 관계에서 갈등, 친척들의 부정적인 시선으로 인하여 딸은 어려움을 겪었다. 둘째, 이혼으로 인한 여성 한부모가족의 비혼 여성이 경험하는 문제는 사회의 구조적인 문제로 경제적인 어려움과 법적인 어려움을 겪는 것으로 나타났다. 경제적인 어려움으로는 학업과 일의 양립의 문제로 인한 것과 생계부양으로 인한 것이 있다. 법적 어려움으로는 여성 한부모와 그의 자녀가 함께 살지라도 법적으로 여성 한부모와 자녀는 한 집에 같이 사는 “동거인” 으로 되어 있고, 아버지가 호주로 되어 있어서 어머니로 호주로 옮기려고 해도 옮길 수 없어 어려움을 경험하고 있었다. 이 여성들은 사회적인 편견으로 인해 사회에서, 가족내에서, 그리고 법에서 부정적인 시선으로 문제 및 갈등을 겪고 있었지만 나름대로 주체적으로 문제에 대해 전략적으로 대응하고 있음을 볼 수 있었다. 개인적인 대응 뿐 아니라 사회구조적인 대응 전략도 절실히 요구 된다.

영어초록

This study examines problem and strategic reaction that unmarried daughters in mother-headed family experience. With a feminist look, perspective it also explores how they cope with the problems, in reviewing which social supports are available.The problems experienced by unmarried daughters aged over 20 are attributed to the ideology of normal family (the idea that assumes both father and mother exist in one family) and patriarchal structural factors in our society.First, the ideology reinforced the idea that divorced mother-headed is abnormal type of family affecting unmarried daughters as well as mothers. This prejudice considers daughters" as who are fostered by their divorced mothers or mal-educated in broken families" therefore, they often face troubles and pain in making relationships with colleagues, boyfriends (or their family members), neighbors, and seniors. Among them, in particular, they are keen to troubles resulting from prejudice by boyfriends' families and prejudice in working places. Meanwhile, conflicts within the divorced mother family are most remarkable where there is an elder brother who tends to try to control his mother and younger sisters instead of his absent or non-existent father. It also seems to be attributed to the role division by gender due to the ideology of normal family. The unmarried daughters were obsessed by the thinking that they must behave more politely. In considering financial difficulty, relationships with their divorced mothers and fathers also troubled them due to unresolved financial problems between them. Actually, they were not upset by the divorce itself. In additon, they had troubles of being recognized as daughter of divorced mother. Second, unmarried daughters experience financial and legal difficulties due to structural factors. Role division by gender resulting from the ideology of normal family marginalized divorced mothers and their daughters from the labor market, driving them into a state of poverty. Legally, unmarried daughters are considered as simple "housemates" even though they are living in a house along with their mothers. In fact, their fathers are still registered family heads officially in terms of law.Some strategical responses from unmarried daughters toward social and legal prejudices are examined in this study.First, they try to hide that they are living in this kind of family. However, they tend to expose the truth when they face to their close friends and those living under the same condition. Also, they “study harder” than colleagues in normal family to cope with the prejudice that "because of absence" of father they are thought to fall short of something. Being aware that problems arise from social contexts, unmarried daughters separated their individual issues from social structure, trying to discover their lost “self”. Against intra-family prejudice, they employ the strategy of separating their own affairs from parental issues. Conflicts unresolved between their parents after the divorce are regarded as those unrelated to themselves.Second, as strategy responding to financial difficulties, some of them do part-time working while studying, others get their full-time jobs by taking a leave from their schools, since it is not affordable to do both working and studying. Some of them took advantage of supports from close colleagues. Concerning their responses to legal prejudice, when they were asked to submit their identification documents by employers, they often presented resident registration proving that they live together with their mothers in the same house, instead of family census registration in which their absent fathers are identified as family head.Key words : Divorced Mother, family, unmarried daughters

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