According to the Cabinet Office's opinion poll on divorce and child-rearing, more than 90% of the respondents answered that if parents with minor children divorce, they should make arrangements for child support before the divorce.
The Cabinet Office conducted the first opinion poll of 5,000 men and women over the age of 18 nationwide from October to November last year in order to understand the public awareness of divorce and child-rearing, and received responses from 2,768 people, or 55%. rice field.
According to this, when parents with minor children introduced a system that can be decided jointly even after divorce, when asked with multiple answers what kind of matters should be decided, "When the child has a big illness "Treatment policy" was 59%, "education such as the course of children" was 53%, and "place where children live" was 32%.
When asked if they should make arrangements for child support by the time they divorce, 72% said they should, and 24% said they should rather, for a total of 96%.
Furthermore, when asked if they should make arrangements before divorce regarding the existence and frequency of visitation exchanges between parents and children living apart, 38% answered "should" and 47% answered "if anything". , It was 85% in total.
A person in charge of the Ministry of Justice said, "I would like to consider how to raise children first, based on the results of opinion polls."