Father Involvement in East Asia

Abstract

Gender roles in parenting have evolved, and are continuing to evolve, in many parts of East Asia. This chapter reviews some of the historical and sociocultural developments in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan and the ways in which these developments have been redefining women and men's familial roles as income providers, caregivers, and educators. Within the East Asian sociocultural context, some governmental, school, and community responses to falling birth rates in the East Asia region have been designed to encourage co-parenting practices across domestic, school, and community settings. The chapter addresses the policies and programs that are reshaping parent-school dynamics as well as father-child relationships at school and in the community. Community agents have played an active role in eliciting parental engagement, especially involvement from fathers. It may be premature to announce that the East Asian paternal role has evolved beyond its dominant one as family breadwinner.

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