Would You Let Your Children Take Maternal Surnames?－A Socialization Perspective

• Main Authors: You-Ting Chen, 陳宥廷
• Other Authors: Chun-Hao Li
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/326dgu

碩士 === 元智大學 === 社會暨政策科學學系 === 106 === With the outcry of women’s human right, possession of tertiary education among female population, and the spring of gender consciousness, gender equality issues are becoming the focus in Taiwan’s residences. Most Taiwanese are generally named after their father’s surnames instead of their mother’s. However, whether the offspring throughout the island should either bear their father’s or mother’s surname has given rise to many related problems following the soaring perceptions in gender equality. Before the revised article 1059 of the ROC Civil Code in 2007, Taiwanese society seemed to take negative attitude toward children with the surnames of their mothers. However, after enacting the new law in practice, the newborn babies bearing mother’s surnames have shown insignificantly at an average of 1.88% only. Therefore, this study attempts to analyze the potential factors influencing the children to have their surnames from either father or mother as well as to investigate the people in Taiwan their inclinations and attitudes toward children’s surname from. The study data were exclusively collected from the Taiwan Social Change Survey in the Survey Research Data Archive (SRDA), developed by the Center for Survey Research (RCHSS), Academia Sinica. The 1027 samples were administered by the Logistic regression analysis to probe the possible variations that may affect the decision making for picking mother’s surnames for the next generation and test each variation to clarify effects on children with their mother’s surnames. According to the results of this study, gender, age, education level, and gender roles (attitudes) were found to have a direct impact on the mother's family name. In addition, although the frequency of participation in religious activities has an effect on the children from the mother's family name, but it is indirect. In other words, religion may indirectly affect children from their mother's surname through other variables. Researchers hope that researchers who are interested in this topic can use this research as a reference to let more people pay attention to children's surnames and expand research.