Social Support and Suicidal Ideation among Children of Cross-Border Married Couples

초록

Marriage-related migration by women from less developed to high-income nations has been increasing rapidly in Asia, and the proportion of children born to these foreign-born women is increasing as well. Using a unique dataset based on the Korean Youth Risk Behavior Survey, we investigate the relationship between social support and suicidal ideation among children with foreign-born mothers. We find that both maternal advice and teachers' advice are significantly associated with a reduction in suicidal ideation among these children, with a further decrease of 3.2 and 4.9% points, respectively, compared to children with native Korean mothers. These findings imply that more government attention should be focused on educating and training foreign-born mothers and schoolteachers to improve their capacity to advise these children.

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