Mothers' Willingness to Sacrifice for Their Children: An Exploratory Approach(1)
- Authors
- Nam, SungHee; Kim, Ji Hye; Seo, Giyeon; Kim, Sanghag
- Issue Date
- Oct-2022
- Publisher
- UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC
- Keywords
- motherhood; sacrifice; young children; linked lives perspective; rational choice model
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES, v.53, no.3, pp.356 - 381
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- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES
- Volume
- 53
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 356
- End Page
- 381
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/185215
- DOI
- 10.3138/jcfs.53.3.040
- ISSN
- 0047-2328
- Abstract
- Intensive mothering ideology emphasizes mothers' sacrifice for their children. Despite the increase in women's social and economic participation, mothers continue to experience conflicts between career and family obligations due to the conventional idea of "good mothers." Do all mothers prioritize their children's needs? This study focuses on whether mothers are willing to sacrifice their happiness and whether such beliefs change over time. We explore the factors contributing to mothers' intention to sacrifice and its change from two theoretical perspectives, rational choice model and linked lives perspective. Using the first three waves of the Panel Study on Korean Children, the findings show that almost half of all mothers are not willing to sacrifice their own happiness for their children at each wave. Both rational choice and linked lives perspectives contribute to explaining mothers' view of sacrifice in the baseline year. The change in mothers' view on sacrifice over time is significantly influenced by a subset of variables including their spouse's positions on sacrifice and social exchange experience with their children (the linked lives perspective), and the emotional values that mothers place on babies (the rational choice model).
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