A growing number of Korean families today are experiencing severe conflicts between husband and wife. If no steps are taken to alleviate such serious marital discord, the situation will lead to a significant increase in the number of divorce in Korean society. In light of this reality, the researche...
A growing number of Korean families today are experiencing severe conflicts between husband and wife. If no steps are taken to alleviate such serious marital discord, the situation will lead to a significant increase in the number of divorce in Korean society. In light of this reality, the researcher has looked at the reasons for and content of the conflict between married couples, studying the process through which it results in divorce in an attempt to find the main cause of the decision for divorce. To define this main cause, a study was conducted on the cases of 18 women to determine what it was that led to the divorce as an unavoidable reality as a result of the conflict development process. The thesis is made up of five chapters, the first of which presents the reason for the study, its goals, the problems of such research and the methodology used. The second and the third chapter explores the roots of conflict within the Korean family: First, the ideology of the patriarchal system provides for the rule of the man over the woman from which stems the troubles with the husband's family, notably the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as the husband's indiscreet extra merital affairs and his physical violence against his wife, the social structure in which man and woman are not in a balanced situation of equality which results in unequal relationships of power and the disharmony that results, according to the cases studied here: Secondly, attention is given to the husband whose drinking habits, morbid suspicion of his wife's chastity, gambling, personality disorders, alcohol ism, combined with an excessive attachment of dependence on his own family and subsequent dysfunctional personality disorders, have given rise to conflicts between the couple. An analysis of this present reality is done through an explanation of its background as seen through the theory of social change and conflict as well as against the background of patriarchy. A brief review of the research carried out heretofore on the issue of divorce looks at the problem and various proposals advanced for alleviating it. Then, an examination is made centered on materials produced by the Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations and the Administrative Office of Courts in an effort to describe the circumstances of divorce in Korea during the previous year and by way of background for the actual cases analyzed in the present study. The Fourth chapter presents overall analysis of the reasons which cause the conflicts between husband and wife, and the process of how the deteriorated conflicts lead to divorce: premarital family backgrounds of the couples: the causes of conflicts and the efforts to isolate the immidiate reason in the process of making decision to divorce: the particular factor that appear to have forced the divorce to occur: and post divorce plans. In sum, after reviewing the overall analysis of this chapter, the researcher found out that the too leading causes for divorce are extra marital affair by husband and family violence. The concluding chapter states that the relationship between husband and wife in the present Korean family which is a part of a larger societal and systemic reality, may not be as ideal as one would desire in terms of a relationship of equal partners resulting in a wholesome family situation. At the same time it is proposed as a significant goal toward which both women and concernd men should work together. However, the often-made suggestion that the usual on man/one woman family should be a thing of the past is no more than a vague option far from the experience of Korean people and thus not yet to be seriously considered in this society. In view of any other variable alternative, though, cash woman in her marriage relationship must have a firm will to develop a marital relationship of equality and to work toward the fullest humanization of both partners. When this occurs, significant changes in the family itself may be anticipated and the goals desired by all women will come closer to realization.
A growing number of Korean families today are experiencing severe conflicts between husband and wife. If no steps are taken to alleviate such serious marital discord, the situation will lead to a significant increase in the number of divorce in Korean society. In light of this reality, the researcher has looked at the reasons for and content of the conflict between married couples, studying the process through which it results in divorce in an attempt to find the main cause of the decision for divorce. To define this main cause, a study was conducted on the cases of 18 women to determine what it was that led to the divorce as an unavoidable reality as a result of the conflict development process. The thesis is made up of five chapters, the first of which presents the reason for the study, its goals, the problems of such research and the methodology used. The second and the third chapter explores the roots of conflict within the Korean family: First, the ideology of the patriarchal system provides for the rule of the man over the woman from which stems the troubles with the husband's family, notably the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as the husband's indiscreet extra merital affairs and his physical violence against his wife, the social structure in which man and woman are not in a balanced situation of equality which results in unequal relationships of power and the disharmony that results, according to the cases studied here: Secondly, attention is given to the husband whose drinking habits, morbid suspicion of his wife's chastity, gambling, personality disorders, alcohol ism, combined with an excessive attachment of dependence on his own family and subsequent dysfunctional personality disorders, have given rise to conflicts between the couple. An analysis of this present reality is done through an explanation of its background as seen through the theory of social change and conflict as well as against the background of patriarchy. A brief review of the research carried out heretofore on the issue of divorce looks at the problem and various proposals advanced for alleviating it. Then, an examination is made centered on materials produced by the Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations and the Administrative Office of Courts in an effort to describe the circumstances of divorce in Korea during the previous year and by way of background for the actual cases analyzed in the present study. The Fourth chapter presents overall analysis of the reasons which cause the conflicts between husband and wife, and the process of how the deteriorated conflicts lead to divorce: premarital family backgrounds of the couples: the causes of conflicts and the efforts to isolate the immidiate reason in the process of making decision to divorce: the particular factor that appear to have forced the divorce to occur: and post divorce plans. In sum, after reviewing the overall analysis of this chapter, the researcher found out that the too leading causes for divorce are extra marital affair by husband and family violence. The concluding chapter states that the relationship between husband and wife in the present Korean family which is a part of a larger societal and systemic reality, may not be as ideal as one would desire in terms of a relationship of equal partners resulting in a wholesome family situation. At the same time it is proposed as a significant goal toward which both women and concernd men should work together. However, the often-made suggestion that the usual on man/one woman family should be a thing of the past is no more than a vague option far from the experience of Korean people and thus not yet to be seriously considered in this society. In view of any other variable alternative, though, cash woman in her marriage relationship must have a firm will to develop a marital relationship of equality and to work toward the fullest humanization of both partners. When this occurs, significant changes in the family itself may be anticipated and the goals desired by all women will come closer to realization.
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