Rise of single-parent households in Japan

Channel NewsAsia's Wei Du travels to Japan to look at how the increasing number of single-parent households in the country is changing the marriage landscape. cna.asia/2JcP7pV

[@xulapostasy7132]

Show us some single fathers. I thought they said "single parents"

[@princessofnada87j25]

Typically, fathers renounce b their children.

[@harshitmadan6449]

@@princessofnada87j25 Typically, unmarried fathers don't get custody

[@tartpan1924]

They should highlight single dads

[@yujinacafe]

Japanese goverment wants their people to work like an animal for they will get more and more tax....that means money...and money they thoughts is power....and forgetting the most important which is the family...without these family how can they get taxes if these people become disoriented because of too much stress and they forgot how to relax.

[@batman3217]

Just like in America, Where are the Fathers?

[@NathanielTanFL]

Welfare has destroyed the family.

[@princessofnada87j25]

Fathers renounce their children.

[@kevindunne4271]

Princessofnada87 j Yeah, because the family courts don’t push fathers out of their children’s lives!?

[@filipinalyn3372]

Maybe it’s better to be single than living with toxic relationships even ur married but still feeling alone, husband not helping housework and not even helping to take care the kids and greedy of money and cheater flirting to many girls, greedy of money!!! So don’t judge single mom why they end like that no body want to be in that situation if there’s no bad thing in there past marriage, and also verbal and physical abuse.., I know that what I said in the first line of my comment was my husband. I near give up I think.. I thought having whole family makes my kids happy but husband not changing, always shouting to kids always angry soon! So what mean of being complete family!

[@mesdas]

6x6 36 hours for 800 USD? Something wrong here. But this is Japan. Homogenous and caring for their own. Must be a very small percentage of people who are in this situation

[@skylinefever]

So you want to increase birth rates by having more single parents? What good does that do when so many of those children end up as criminals or drug addicts? Quality is better than quantity of populations.

[@Charles-hy6gp]

Japan is one of the safest country in the world, so criminal and drug addicts wouldn´t never been a thing

[@MelaniaRose]

Being raised by a single parent doesn’t mean you go on drugs or crime. You can have both parents and still turn out fucked up.

[@skylinefever]

@@MelaniaRose It is true that some children have bothe parents and still ruin their lives. However, statistics show that it is less common.

[@julieabot4154]

What a bulshiit stigma

[@kristinesharp6286]

It’s not the gov fault a woman not wearing a wedding ring sees her children harassed. That is the fault the people doing the harassing. They are up all night drinking cause their boss who can’t get or keep a wife is lonely and wants to stay out all night. It’s why the mom isn’t hired for the higher positions. She can’t go drinking with them late in to the night. They have a life. People want to marry and have 2-4 kids and time to spend with them. They don’t cause they don’t feel they have the time or money cause the world says kids cost too much. What costs too much is drastic sudden demographic change. It throw off the economy.

[@arisaga822]

Yeah, because single parent families do such a great job of raising children. Remind me, what is the proportion of incarcerated people in the US hailing from single mothers - 70~80%? Well done.

[@kevindunne4271]

Arisaga Ya, I think it’s 85% isn’t it? Unbelievable!

[@dilyaTebya]

And this is a single mother's fault because? Where is the man/male that should be the father? ???? At least most of women/mother dont want their child to be loss in the system. They are doing their best in their situation ( which most of them didnt choose to be in the first place) and they doing it with poor social support.

[@Prolute]

@arisaga822 This correlation disappears when you control for IQ

[@aomine6817]

marriage is outdated and raising a child costs a lot of money which would reduce consumption. rich people should make more kids, they can afford it. what's the point of having kids if they end up being even poorer. also why would people in big cities decide to have many children in place that is already too crowded?

[@bobingalls4643]

not for Christians it's not. Living in sin is the way of the world, not our wayl

[@MaxSmith-zz2ik]

as Michael Jackson said : If you cant feed your baby (yeah, yeah) Then don't have a baby (yeah, yeah) And don't think maybe (yeah, yeah) If you can't feed your baby (yeah, yeah) You'll be always tryin' To stop that child from cryin' Hustlin', stealin', lyin' Now baby's slowly dyin'

[@siuman1124]

Hee Hee! Schamonenah!

[@alexgunawan98]

it is every where. they avoid Nuclear Bomb.

[@iarshintasudjana4382]

No housekeeper n women enjoy working. In Indomesia we hv domestic helper n still affordable so having kids is still manageable

[@mystermont2019]

So what are the long term effects of the psychology of children growing up in a single parent house hold? Have you read the research?

[@limitless1692]

I thought that Japanese women are different It looks like they are the same Feminist poison got to Japan too

[@nishayong6884]

You don't know the story of every single mother do you my gosh so much hate for women

[@bursty2464]

Better alone than in awful marriage.

[@MayneDeWayne]

1:39 the supposed “expert” says state policies are racing to catch up with the realities on the ground. I beg to differ....state policies are DRIVING the realities on the ground. There, fixed it for ya’.

[@clickrola]

Why do they need more kids. Low population may be a problem in the short term but a smaller population would definitely be good for the economy if we talk long term. Japan is a small island nation with limited resources and cities like Tokyo are already overpopulated.

[@michelleongoro5495]

As the years go by being a single parent will be the most trend cause more younger people rather be single parents than get married

[@jiraiya.8268]

What happened to yumi saito?? From the last 7years video one about Japan's hidden poor

[@team69racing11]

Where's the kids father?? Wow i feel bad for her such a pretty lady!!

[@imonlyspectating2060]

Hahahaaa...the best kids I have ever met that came from single parent homes, were raised by Dad. The worst come from homes where only Mom and her continual stream of boyfriends are present.

[@bobingalls4643]

you have a good point.

[@MayneDeWayne]

How about giving money to fathers who stay in the home. Otherwise, it’s just an incentive for women to leave the man and give the honor of raising kids to taxpayers and the government.

[@peacefulhuman8518]

There shouldn’t be any pay disparity if the government want both men and women to contribute to economic growth and save the population from shrinking. Single mothers are humans too.

[@Ihatethis--lk1yq]

Asia is VARY anti-women. Women make about 15% less then men and female students are expected to score atleast 20 points more if they want to get into college.