An Effect of Population Education upon the University Students- Focusing on Changes in Values about Marriage, Family, and Delivery

As our society has some irrational romantic myths about marriage, family, and child-rearing, there are many people who are suffering from adapting after marrying and child birth. Especially, a group of the university students has the ages that will make the decision in foreseeable future about marriage and delivery. Therefore, it is critical to do some researches about these topics that are targeted to the university students. For this study, firstly, we developed some lectures that are 15 weeks long about population education that are targeted to the 400 university students from Seoul and 5 Provinces. We modified them after we got validity from experts of population education, and determined it. Secondly, we tried to carry out the lectures about population education and investigated if the university students could form the sensible attitude toward marriage, family, delivery, and child-rearing between the pre and post treatment. This research will provide theoretical preliminary data for increasing population education in Korean society. Also, we expect to have quantitative data that education can change the values of adults who have relatively stable values. This will provide another preliminary data for lectures of population education and development of class that reflect characteristics of subjects