Rapid Industrialization Induced Poor Hometeaching and Increased Juvenile Delinquents in South Korea

PURPOSE: Recently the number of juvenile delinquents have been increasing in Korea and their misdeeds were getting worse. This study was conducted to find out the basic cause of juvenile delinquency and a counterplan of overcoming this distress. METHODS: The authors reviewed the statistics of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office to know the juvenile delinquents and Korean national statistics to know the changes of family environments. The author conducted a study on the family environments between student group and juvenile de linquent group in jail, and also investigated the value judgement of middle and high school students to know the difference between the recent adolescents and the youth before 1945. RESULTS: Nuclear families, dual-income families and divorce rates have remarkably been increased recently. All of which are considered to be the basic cause of getting worse in home teaching. It was found that the delinquent group have more defective families, poorer economic status, poorer parent's educational level than the student group, and also found that the value judgement of recent youth were quite different from that of youth before 1945. CONCLUSION: Industrialization have changed our home-environment rapidly which made home-teaching poorer, and the children were being insecure and melancholy, which consequently made them more abnormal youth and juvenile delinquents in Korea.

The Last Fifty Years of Western Medicine in Korea: Korean Pediatric Society

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Rapid Socio-environmental Changes and Adolescent Problems in Korea

PURPOSE: There were rapid socio-environmental changes in Korea caused by industrializations in last thirty years. Those changes are : first, abrupt changes from the environments with closed Confucian ideas to the liberal democratic society, second, agricultural society changed to industrialized society and families with two or three generations are broken down into nuclear families at each generation, third, the annual personal income was increased from less than 100 US dollars in 1960' s to 10,000 US dollars in recent years, and some peoples show luxurious consuming, adolescents became feeble minded and peoples avoid jobs with dirty or hard works, fourth, one third of young couples employed are dual income families and they left their child to a neighbourhood, or a day-care center or infant home for caring children during work hours, fifth, the school education focused on the entrance examination of the university that causes conflicts between parents and offsprings. METHODS: The author studied differences of family environments between student group (SG) consists of middle and high school students, and juvenile delinquent group (JDG) confined in prison. It is revealed that the extent of misconduct depend on different factors such as the age of study subjects, absence of parent (s) in the family, total family income, parents' educational level, personal expenses and the conflicts between parents. The conditions for those factors were worse in JDG as compared with that of SG. The differences were statistically significant. As long as the extent of delinquency is concerned, delinquent points of JDG were significantly higher as compared with that of SG for all factors. RESULTS: In order to prevent juvenile delinquency in Korea, it is recommended that educational level and the living standard of the lower class peoples should be raised, the sound families which do have less conflicts should be established as many as possible, defective families should be reduced by decreasing divorce rate and car accident, the current educational system that is making much more conflicts between parents and their offsprings should be changed so that their given temperament would be brought up to the highest level, parents who do not want to see misbehavior of their children should not do actions that are considered not to be done by youngsters and must set a good example, parents should act up to what they say, adult education is to be developed so that to rear their children emotionally sound as much as possible. CONCLUSION: It is recommended that : 1) We, pediatricians must concern not only for their physical and mental health of the children, but also intervening their families. 2) When we, pediatrician would find any unhappy children leaving parents, should lead and help them to receive proper love and home-education. 3) Day-care nurseries, nursing schools and kindergartens that are under control of a local district office must employ qualified teachers and enough spaces. 4) Home-education should be done by the parents in each family. In order to give better home-education we have to teach on rearing babies and children and on home-education during the middle, high school ages in female. 5) The society has the responsibility of admitting and educating all unhappy children in institutional facilities. 6) As long as the economic conditions permit, compulsory education for one or two years of 5 to 6 years-old children should be performed to learn about social moralities and basic regulations.

A study on the relationship between juvenile delinquency and family environment

This study was conducted to find out an appropriate means for preventing the juvenile delinquency (JD), which is supposed to be greatly realted to family environment. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey with a means of writing by themself, to 257 middle and high school students and 309 juvenile delinquents who were in confinement. The questionnaire was consisted of 27 items of juvenile delinquencies, 15 questions about personal environment in their period of childhood, 36 questions on their home atmosphere, 25 items with regard to their parental behavior to their children in the rearing of them. The extent of delinquency was calculated by summing the numbers of experienced delinquencies of the listed items. The study subjects were divided into two groups; student group (SG) and juvenile delinquent group (JDG) and the collected data were analyzed with the extent of delinquency in each group by SPSS/PC+statistical package. The extent of JD was increased as the study subjects grew older, defective families were more common, total family income was more poor, parents' educational level was lower, personal expenses were higher and the conflicts between parents were more high in JDG as compared with of SG. The differences were statistically significant. As long as the extent of delinquency is concerned, delimquent points of JDG were significantly higher as compared with that of SG in all items except one item, below the primary school item in fathers' educational level. (In order to prevent JD in our country, it is recommended that educational level and the living standared of the lower class people should be raised, the sound families which do have less conflictsshould be established as much as possible, the present educational system which is making much conflicts between parents and their offsprings should be changed so that their given temperament would be brought up to the highest level, defective families should be reduced as much as possible and adults should not do actions that are considered not to be done by youngsters and must set a good example.)

Mealsles vaccination in the Korea / 감염

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Occurrence of Pediatric Diseases in Relation to the Environment, Seasons and Atmospheric Phenomena(weather) / 예방의학회지

This study was conducted to investigate the association of the occurrence of pediatric disease with environmental, seasonal and atmospheric factors. The data were collected at 5 pediatric clinics in Seoul and the Department of Pediatrics of Yongin Severance Hospital from May 1986 to April 1987. The results were as follows: 1. Vacation periods had a great influence upon the occurrence of pediatric diseases. 2. The majority of pediatric diseases occurred mainly in spring and autumn, not in summer and winter. 3. The higher the average relative humidity was, the less diseases occurred; and the higher the maximum change of daily temperature, the more diseases occurred. 4. In summer, the pattern of diseases varied along with the environmental factors(eg., toilet).

A Case of Larsen Syndrome

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Abdominal Pain, Suspicious Peptic Ulcer and Psychologic Problem

No abstract available.

A Case of Silver Russel Syndrome

No abstract available.

Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurements in Newborn Infants

No abstract available.