Research on Father’s Participation of Children Upbringing Issues in Rural Regions and Strategies

Abstract

In the past few years, a hot topic on how about fathers’ participation in children upbringing has been studied and concerned by researchers and the society. This study, in aspects of motivations and behaviors of rural fathers who participate in children upbringing, with data samples collected from 312 children aged between 3-6 in three kindergartens and their fathers in Town A, Bazhong City, Sichuan province, aims at knowing about the status quo of rural fathers participating their children upbringing and existing issues as well, through Quantitative Research Methods including questionnaire and so forth. As the investigation shown, fathers in rural regions are often few participating in their children’s upbringing and spending few hours to accompany their children, but most of fathers who have been well educated and can earn relatively higher incomes appreciate their children’s education. Because traditional upbringing concept by fathers is not changed and lack of supports from our society. the government and the society should provide supports to families in rural regions from the views of changing political conditions, to facilitate a reform for rural fathers’ mind-set, to bring consensus to children’s parents in rural regions, especially their fathers, to improve the quality for babysitting children given by their fathers.