How does disownership of a child work in Japan?
What do you mean by ‘disowning a child’? If you mean cutting a child out of a will or kicking them out of the house, well, “we” do that “here”. Typically, people who get married have reached the age of majority: there is no law that says that parents must support competent, adult children. So, yes, the stereotype is false, and confused to boot. Japan does have very comprehensive family law, and a good (better than Canada) social services program for children in care. But it’s comparable to “here”. Same system. Interestingly, Japan has not signed on to the UN universal declaration of the rights of the child. Anyway, the stereotype you are referring to is that Japanese folks strive to protect “honor” or “save face” over everything else. There’s nothing dishonorable about having a child marry a foreigner. But it must be disconcerting for a Japanese parent when their daughter comes home with someone who doesn’t speak the language – someone they can’t communicate with. Kind of the same thin
