Child-rearing circumstances of Corona's evil seen from popular online comics March 10 20:42

Two years after becoming a corona sickness, online comics on SNS that deal with child-rearing are gaining popularity.

The author himself comically depicts the hardships and worries he felt when working on child-rearing, and sometimes his anger and disappointment, and many readers have expressed sympathy.

"I can't go out and I can't talk to anyone about my worries." "My husband doesn't

raise children even if I spend more time at home."

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Daddy's child-rearing struggle manga SNS talked about

Nowadays, what is widely shared on SNS and has become a hot topic is a two-frame manga depicting the daily life of a male author raising children.

"When I tried to take a bath, I had a hard time with a big cry."

"Even if I work from home, I react when my child calls me."

It has been posted on SNS Twitter almost every day since last year, and it has become a popular manga with 140,000 followers on the account.

The author, "Dog Dog," is 38 years old.

He works in design and writes manga on Twitter during breaks when he works from home.

He spends most of his time at home with his wife, a one-year-old son, who is on maternity leave, and often struggles to raise his first child or balance work and childcare.

If you post the hardships and worries that you felt in such a situation as a work, you will receive many sympathetic voices and encouragement, and some of them will give you specific advice, which will support the dog's heart. It is said that it has become.

Inu Inu:

"I don't get any information because I don't interact with children and parents of the same age because of Corona, and I often notice in the comments that there are similar things." If you say "I have a dog", I think "Oh, I'm glad" and "I'm okay with peace of mind."

My current concern is how to balance work and childcare in the future.

Her wife is planning to return to work soon after taking childcare leave, and the story of how she was rejected one after another at the nursery school she applied for is also published in a manga.

Inu Inu

"I'm really worried about what will happen in the future. I don't know what to do, so I think I have no choice but to explore."

Inu Inu's wife

"Now both of us are at home, so we are mainly raising children, but when we return to work, I think we may be dissatisfied with what to do with work and childcare."

“Daddy Childcare” Online Articles Attention Soars

There is an analysis that interest in such "male childcare" is steadily increasing.

When the IT company "SmartNews", which distributes news and column articles with an app, investigated changes in the reading tendency of articles over the past two years, the article titles included "child-rearing" and "daddy". The number of articles increased 1.7 times, the staying time of articles increased more than 8 times, and the percentage of male readers also changed from 50% to more than 60%.

Also, looking at the titles of popular articles, there were many words related to the difference in awareness of child-rearing that occurred between fathers and mothers, such as "Ikumen," "husband," and "anger."

The person in charge analyzes that as the husband and wife spend more time together at home through the corona wreck, new worries such as "frustration with the husband who is sick" are becoming established.

The person in charge of

SmartNews "The father was in a situation where he was angry if he didn't raise his child first, but he did it, and even if he insisted that he was doing it, he was angry. Looking at the title of the article, I felt like I was being told. "

Is my wife "white eyes" in her husband's words and deeds?

Online comics depicting "the difference in consciousness between fathers and mothers" are also becoming popular.

Illustrations that make a wife "white eyes" due to her husband's words and actions over child-rearing are posted almost every day mainly on Instagram, and it is a popular account with 90,000 followers.

The author, Misa Shirame, works as a clinical psychologist and posts her daily life and worries with her husband and children as a manga.

Among them, her "misrecognition with her husband" is a popular theme, and in this work where she wrote down the types of housework that the couple can think of, while Mr. Shirame wrote out 200 types, her There were 10 types of husbands.

Mr. Shirame:

"For my husband, it's all about the housework I'm doing, but for me, it's the recognition that I'm doing the rest of the housework, and the total number of housework is different from each other. I did. "

Mr. Shirame, who draws such feelings of anger and disappointment toward her husband with humor, has expressed sympathy such as "I understand" and "I felt that way too".

She was also seriously worried about wanting to be known by Mr. Shirame, who is also a clinical psychologist, and some said, "Why did you have a child?" "It's painful enough to think about divorce." increase.

Mr. Shirame:

"I think it's very big that the feeling of loneliness isn't that the person is physically together, but that there is no one who feels the same. Even though it's a very difficult situation, there are people who are together. If you don't feel the same, I think you'll feel more lonely. "

"Troubles of child-rearing of corona sickness" seen from big data

The spread of child-rearing worries in the corona sickness can be seen from the big data of SNS.

An analysis of Twitter posts showed that the number of posts including "one operation," "childcare," and "childcare" tended to increase in the last two years when the corona was devastated.

Analyzing other keywords that have increased in posts over the last two years, there was a tendency for "papa," "worry," and "anxiety" to increase along with "child-rearing."

When the Tokyo Metropolitan Government asked men and women with preschoolers how much time they spend raising children on the Internet, a 2019 survey found that women averaged about 6 hours a day, nearly three times as much as men. In the survey conducted in June last year, when the problem was a corona, both men and women did not change much, and it can be seen that women are still responsible for most of the child-rearing.

Expert "Relief of problems with Corona"

Professor Yuiko Fujita of Meiji University, who is studying "one-operated childcare," points out that the corona sickness has highlighted deep-seated issues such as gender awareness and flexibility in working hours.

Professor Yuiko Fujita

"While the amount of housework such as preparing meals, cleaning up, and cleaning has increased due to school and nursery school closures, the support of grandmas and relatives has decreased because the elderly should not be sick. In Japan, there is a strong awareness that child-rearing is the role of the mother, so if we do not create a place to raise children in society, the situation will end up in the same situation if something happens. I think it is necessary to change the child-rearing system that relies on

Launched "Connect! Chienowa"

How should we deal with the “haze” surrounding child-rearing in the corona sickness?

NHK has launched a project called "Tsunagare! Chienowa" to solve your problems with the wisdom you have given us.

This is an initiative that aims to solve problems together while sharing wisdom by connecting people with the same problems and thoughts, and will be introduced in programs, web articles, and NHK notes in the future.

In addition to the questionnaire form below, we are soliciting your concerns and opinions about child-rearing with Corona-stricken by using the questionnaire form below and tweets with "#Corona-stricken Moyamoya Child-rearing".

According to the questionnaire, I have been worried that "If my child has a fever in a nursery school or elementary school even though I work together, I will always pick you up." The limit of my heart is coming. "

In addition, there are also experiences such as "When I make acquaintances with parents and children at support centers and children's centers, I feel that I am not alone."

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