Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Department
Asian Studies
Reader 1
Seo Young Park
Reader 2
Min Ju Kim
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© 2015 Margaret Hong
Abstract
In this thesis, I argue that traditional notions of Confucianism and its growing modernity within Korean society have contributed to the continuing issue of child abandonment, inhibiting Korean mothers from gaining bodily, social, and economic independence. There are a variety of governmental and societal pressures, including the emphasis on motherhood and the nuclear family, and expectations for the women, that push these unwed mothers to make undesirable decisions on whether or not to keep their child.
Recommended Citation
Hong, Margaret, "The Question of Child Abandonment in South Korea: Misplacing Blame on Personhood" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. 706.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/706
