The research focuses on the parents in Seoul and Kyeong-in area and whose intellectual disability children are above the age 19, working in the career rehabilitation center for the disabled. The research will study on the parents' attitude towards the...
The research focuses on the parents in Seoul and Kyeong-in area and whose intellectual disability children are above the age 19, working in the career rehabilitation center for the disabled. The research will study on the parents' attitude towards their children's marriages and on the factors that affect parents' attitude from individual, family, and environmental perspectives. Then it will analyze the correlations for each factor so that it would eventually arouse the meanings of the marriages of the intellectual disability and increase their marriage rate. This will also provide further suggestions on how they would maintain their stable marriage lives.
Therefore, the study had, through convenience sampling, selected ninety-two career rehabilitation centers for the disabled in Seoul and Kyeong-in area. Then it statistically analyzed the survey results of 1605 parents whose children are intellectual disability and also working in the center with the age over nineteen.
The research results are as followed:
First, when asked about their preferences for marriage, those who wanted to get married marked 38.8%, while those not wanting to get married was 30.2% of the sample population, the first case being 8.6% higher in percentage. 31.0% of them answered they do not know.
Second, when observed the parents' attitude towards their intellectual disability children's marriage, 34.3% showed positive attitude while 41.9% showed negative attitude and 23.8% illustrated ambivalent attitude.
Third, of those who showed positive attitude towards the marriage, only 26.5% had the experience of specifically pushed ahead the marriage plan. Furthermore, they preferred partners without disabilities the most, followed by the disabled and the intellectual disability respectively.
Fourth, the reasons for parents' negative attitudes for children's marriage included the possibility of increased burden for the parents in taking care of their children, marriage relationship or taking roles as husband and wife, economic problems including low wages.
Fifth, from the result of the hierarchical regression analysis on the factors influencing the parents' attitudes toward marriage, among the factors of child's age, sex, income, marriage preference, family, parents' burden for taking care of children forever meaningfully affected their influences the most.
Considering the mentioned results, parents showed positive attitudes toward their children's marriage when their children were young, male, high in income, wanting to get married, and when parents did not have the burden to take care of their children in the future.
Therefore, in order to increase the marriages and maintenance of marriages, there is a need to realize marriage as one of the accomplishments one need to reach in life and the support of marriage lives through stable works is needed by active participations of professional institutions.