• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.262-280
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• 2015

The number of stepfamilies is rapidly growing in our society according to social changes. So family programs especially for stepfamily relationship enforcement with adolescents at home are needed. The purpose of this study is to investigate the direction of family programs for enforcing the stepfamily relationship between stepparents and stepchildren. For the purpose, case studies from those stepfamilies were analyzed through qualitative interviews and early developed program contens were referred. Based on discussion mentioned above, program development direction for stepfamily relationship enforcement is not only dealing with difficulties of stepfamilies in their early remarriage but also emphasizing their advantages. In conclusion, this program development direction expected stepfamilies to resolve their problems and to prevent their family break up as well as to deliver practical benefits.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.169-175
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• 2013

According to the increase of the remarried family, education programs are needed to help the adaptation of them. The purpose of this study is to analyze remarriage preparations and to present considerations for the development of remarriage educational program in the future. Through analysis of total nine existing remarriage programs, there are needs to consider the following factors when developing remarriage programs. There is a need to be developed and implemented various programs to adequately support the remarried family. Also need to have a system that help adaption. As a result of research, future remarried program shall be as follows. First, the educational content consists of differency depending on the type of remarriage. Second, we should develop program avoiding the problem-oriented perspective, focus on the enhancements remarried families and address the adaptive factors. Third, psychological support counseling programs should be included. Remarriage Preparation measurement Scale is utilized and children is included in programs.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.56 no.2
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• pp.215-235
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• 2004

A little understood but rapidly growing phenomenon in our society is remarriage. By 2002, 21% of marriage involved the remarriage of one or both partners. Furthermore, the ratio of remarriage of women has outnumbered the ratio of remarriage of men, which is remarkable change compared to the traditional culture putting a taboo on women's remarriage in Korea. The purpose of this study is to construct the perspective and the direction of programs for enhancing the remarriage family functioning. For the purpose, we explore the intrinsic vulnerability to family dissolution of remarriage and ill preparation for remarriage of people. There are unrealistic myths around, lack of informations on, absence of guideline for remarriage family life. Also, we discuss the process of remarriage family development, which leads us to the conclusion that the remarriage shows totally different family structure and family interaction from first marriage nuclear family. Based on discussion mentioned above, several suggestions are provided for developing programs for remarriage family functioning. Above all, the family developmental perspective on remarriage is more useful paradigm rather than deficit-comparison perspective for remarriage family. Also, the programs for remarriage family functioning should challenge the unrealistic myths around remarriage such as the instant love between step-parents and step-children, the re-created nuclear family, etc. Also, several points such as the remarried family developmental stage, the disparity in expectation of man and woman on remarriage, and the tendency to scapegoat a stepmother should be considered in programs for enhancing remarriage family functioning.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.64 no.3
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• pp.183-202
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• 2012

Remarriages constitute an increasing proportion of all marriage in Korea. In 2010, 21.9% of marriage were remarriages for one or both partners. In spite of such increasing of remarriage, not much attentions were given the issues of remarriage in the academic circle of social welfare in Korea. This study is conducted to understand the nature of remarriage, the family structure in remarriage, the relationship between the boundary ambiguity and the family functioning in remarriage. Although boundary ambiguity is believed to be more problematic for remarriage families than first-marriage families and as such has been the topic of research in the U.S.A and other countries, few studies have focused on this topic in Korea. This study examined degree of boundary ambiguity of 125 samples of remerried women and their family functioning. Also, the study examined the relationship between the boundary ambiguity and the family functioning in remarriage. This study conceptualized boundary ambiguity as an incongruence between physical and psychological presence or absence of family members. The findings indicated that the majority of respondents(67.6%) were categorized as having both no psychological and no physical ambiguity. 19.8% of respondents were categorized as having physical ambiguity, 9.9% as having psychological ambiguity, and 2.7% as having both psychological and physical ambiguity. Statistically significant differences of family functioning in remarriage were found among four groups having different type of boundary ambiguity.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.161-184
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• 2021

This study attempts to develop marriage satisfaction program for remarried couples. Therefore, based on the in-depth interviews for 10 remarried couples, the plan was to present the direction of the program development for remarried couples' satisfaction. In this study, the marital satisfaction program of remarried couples should move toward increasing understanding among family members based on their strengths as well as conflicts and difficulties of remarried families. Therefore, the research will be meaningful in that it not only leads to successful remarriage but also enhance the happiness of family members.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.61 no.1
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• pp.293-322
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• 2009

This study investigated the problems of remarried wife with alcoholic problem. Specifically, this study regarded the wife's alcoholic problem as the problems of dysfunctional interaction among family members rather than an individual problem. The study had three purposes as follows. First, what were the interactions sustaining the conflict of remarried family? Second, what were the characteristics of remarried family relating to family conflict? Third, what were the interventions of family therapy to resolve the conflicts of remarried family? The total family counseling was 9 sessions, which included individual, couple, and family counseling. The study used constant comparative analysis by using open coding method to find the factors relating interactions sustaining the conflict of remarried family, the characteristics of remarried family relating to family conflict, and the interventions of family therapy to resolve the conflicts of remarried family. Also, the study used Miles and Huberman's matrix and graphical network display to show the interaction of family members. The study found intriguing factors, counteracting factors, relationship level, and relational elements to wife's alcoholic problems among family members. The study revealed husband's rigid family rules, husband's execution of patriarchal authority, husband's pursuit of family identity, and husband's emphasis of union among family members as the characteristics of remarried family. On the other hand, the study found the reinforcement of spousal subsystem, the pursuit of change in communication pattern between husband and wife, the amelioration of rigid family rules, and the acceptance of differences among family members as the intervention of family therapy to resolve the conflicts of remarried family.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.15-28
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• 2010

The study investigated the repeated conflict of remarried family from family systems perspective, and used the verbatim of family members, who were participated in family therapy, as analysis data. the study used Miles and Hubernam's matrix, graph, and graphical network display to analyze the data. The results of study were as follows. After the couples remarried, a husband and two step-children, who were born in ex-wife, used dysfunctional communication method to keep the established family systems. Also, a wife used dysfunctional communication method to change the existing family systems. These dysfunctional communication method, which were used by family members, caused vicious cycle rather than resolving the family conflict. The differences of remarried husband first-married wife, and the differences of blooded and non-blooded relationships among family members had influenced on family conflict.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.171-195
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• 2007

Remarriages constitute an increasing proportion of all marriage in Korea. In 2005 26.1% of marriages were remarriages for one or both partners. Also, remarriages are more likely to end in divorce than first marriages. This study is conducted to understand how and why the remarriage is ended in divorce in Korea. Seven ex-stepmothers were asked in-depth interview to describe the whole story from courtship to divorce of remarriage. Their narratives were analyzed by a qualitative software program, Nvivo2, which assured us the validity and the reliability of method of the study. Qualitative analysis revealed several major concepts related to the dissolution of remarriage: lack of feeling of love in a motive of marriage, lack of understanding of and preparation for remarriage, fragile tie of remarried couple, frictions between step-children and step-mothers, feeling excluded from family-in-law, and wife battering. The results of the study highlighted that the social work interventions should be actively done in the area of family life education including remarriages and remarried families.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.743-760
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to identify stepfamily adolescents' emotions related with parental remarriage and the need for education program for them. Forty three stepfamily adolescents in middle and high schools in Seoul were surveyed. As a main result, the most of stepfamily adolescents felt a difficulty in adjustment to stepparent even through more than half of the adolescents perceived the advantage of parental remarriage. The greatest number of stepfamily adolescents wanted an understanding of themselves from parents and agreed the necessity of the educational program for them. 'The understanding of stepfamily', 'The resolution of conflict with stepparent' and 'Stress management' were the popular topics which were demanded as program contents by stepfamily adolescents. Several discussions and conclusions on the main result were suggested.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.62 no.2
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• pp.5-28
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• 2010

This study is to examine the process of divorce and remarriage as well as the remarried life after divorce of Korean immigrants in Chicago area. Researchers interviewed in depth 9 remarried Korean immigrants with adolescent stepchildren: 7 women and 2 men. The qualitative interview scripts were analyzed and categorized by case study methods. The case analysis revealed 17 subcategories resulting in 5 core categories: reasons for divorce, remarriage as new choice of life, conflicts in remarried life, coping resources, and stable stage of remarried life. Based on these results, possible intervention strategies were suggested for the social workers working with remarried Korean immigrants.