| dc.description.abstract | This research is aimed to (i) describe the the role of women in the family with the issue of family chang-
ing (ii) to explore the ASEAN and Japanese government’s strategy and policy in protecting women. This
research in particular uses Policy Analysis Framework to portrait the trends and engendering policy in
anticipate changing family. This research relies on qualitative method analyze of the data trend from
statistical reports on family changing trend. It is used to analyze the data trend from statistical reports
on family changing trend. The major data on family changing will be drawn from many credible sources
such as: (a) national population census data and official statistics published by national governments
over five years; and (b) country reports, government in figures (c) country population figures collected.
The result shows that patterns and trends in household size and living arrangements in ASEAN Coun-
tries is different from Japan. The family changing in Japan highlight: first, the changing in lone parent
families is critical issue in Japan due to female vulnerable labor forces. The main problem caused to
economic hardship for the lone female parents is the legal status of lone parent households. Second,
money for marriage was chosen as the most serious obstacle to marriage by both men and women,
Ideology of “I-E” still plays crucial role in Japanese “family” system and its gender relations. “I-E” rep-
resents “a quasi-kinship unit with a patriarchal head and members tied to him through real or symbolic
blood relationship. Third, the spousal tax benefit in resulted in discouraging many women from seeking
jobs. While in ASEAN, the family changing more on tackle issues of poverty, children employment, and
fertility birth. | en_US |
