We conducted a questionnaire survey on the current status of divorce and compiled reports on "post-divorce conflicts between parents," "desirable post-divorce relationships for children," and "the status of receipt of child support and implementation of visitation.
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GUGEN Software, Inc.(Head office: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture; Representative: Ryota Sakai)*1 andFourIdeal Japan K.K.(Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; President: Michiko Sugihara)*2 with the vision of supporting divorced couples in raising their children and not making their parents' divorce a handicap for children, with the aim of clarifying the current situation and issues related to divorce among couples with children, in order to realize a society in which "divorced parents are not a handicap for their children".Visitation App raeru*3 (developed and managed by GUGEN Software, Inc.), we conducted a questionnaire survey on the current status of divorce among its users and compiled a report on "Post-divorce conflicts between parents," "Desirable post-divorce relationships for children," and "Status of receipt of child support and implementation of visitation.
The first objective of this survey is to investigate and disseminate the actual situation of post-divorce parental conflicts and desirable parental relationships, as well as the relationship between child support, visitation, and parental communication, in order to help parents who are struggling with post-divorce parenting issues "realize that they need to build a new relationship after divorce, not a husband-wife relationship but a parent-parent relationship. The second objective is to provide an opportunity for society to "think about child-rearing for people in various situations, including post-divorce. In order to realize a society in which children are not handicapped by the divorce of their parents, we will study the necessary support for post-divorce parenting and implement it in society.
Report Summary
(1) Discrepancy between the post-divorce relationship of parents and the desirable relationship of parents for their children
The percentage of negative responses such as "I don't trust my partner (20%)" and "I don't want to be involved at all (19%)" was high for feelings toward the partner after divorce, while positive responses such as "I can discuss child-rearing (21%)" and "We trust each other (20%)" were high for the ideal relationship for the children. (21%)" and "a relationship in which we can trust each other (20%)," indicating a significant discrepancy between the current relationship between parents and the parents' ideal relationship for their children.
(2) Cohabiting parent who desires "child support" and separated parent who desires "visitation
When asked, "What is necessary to establish a desirable relationship between parents for their children? The most common answer was "continuous payment of child support (20%)" for cohabiting parents and "continuous visitation (15%)" for separated parents, indicating that both payment of child support and visitation, which are the children's rights, are necessary for a desirable parental relationship for the children. The other most common response was "no parental consent" for both parents. Other responses from both parents were "understanding of your partner," "words of gratitude," "words of apology," and "love for the child," indicating that love for the child and consideration between parents are necessary.
In order to end the existing "couple" relationship and rebuild a desirable "parents" relationship for the child, we believe it is important to continue to provide child support and visitation while maintaining love for the child and a sense of appreciation and care for both parents.
(3) raeru users have higher rates of child support receipt and visitation compared to the general population.
It is said that the child support receipt rate is 281 TP6T and the visitation implementation rate is 301 TP6T*4 On the other hand, in this survey, the child support receipt rate was 841 TP6T and the visitation implementation rate was 801 TP6T. It was shown that reducing the burden of communication between parents by means of tools (apps) significantly contributes to the improvement of the child support receipt rate and the visitation implementation rate.
Survey Summary
- Survey period: November 5, 2023 to November 18, 2023 (14 days total)
- Research organization (survey entity): GUGEN Software, Inc.
- Survey target: raeru users
- Number of valid responses (sample size): 194
- Survey method (tabulation and calculation method): Web-based questionnaire
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- For visitation support groups who would like to introduce raeru to their users
- Lawyers who would like to introduce raeru to their users.
- Researchers and media professionals who are investigating the reality of divorce
Future Development
GUGEN Software will promote the social implementation of raeru, an application for visitation that reduces the communication burden on parents and rebuilds the relationship between parents after divorce, and will work to improve the rates of child support receipt and visitation. We will also promote hypotheses and verifications for the design of necessary services and systems to realize a society in which children are not handicapped by the divorce of their parents.
1 GUGEN Software, Inc.
https://gugen-software.com/
2 FourIdeal Japan K.K.
https://forideal.jp/
3 Visitation application "raeru
https://raeru.jp/
4 Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, FY2021 National Survey of Single-parent Households, etc.
https://www.cfa.go.jp/assets/contents/node/basic_page/field_ref_resources/f1dc19f2-79dc-49bf-a774-21607026a21d/9ff012a5/20230725_councils_shingikai_hinkon_hitorioya_6TseCaln_05.pdf
