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development offered? Please provide information such as the current status of parenting
education or measurable standards of its effectiveness.
116. How many parents, as of 2017, have participated in parenting education held by
Health Family Support Center, Support Center for Childcare, and Parents Support Center
and how is the assessment of its effectiveness?
2. Children deprived of a family environment
Issue 34. Children Subject To Protection
1) Current status
117. The term "child subject to protection" means a child who has no protector or is
separated from a protector, or whose protector is unsuitable for, or incapable of, rearing
them, such as in cases of child abuse by the protector. The Statistics Report on Current
Status of Children Subject to Protection by Statistics Korea in 2018 shows that the number
of children in need of protection was 4,846 in 2017. Protective measures have been taken
for 4,121 children due to the following reasons:
Table 1. Reasons why the child became subject to protection
Measures
Reasons why the child became subject to
taken
protection
Protective
Measures
As of 2017
Abusive parents
1,437
Unwed Parents or Extramarital Children
850
Divorce
754
Deceased Parents
276
Abandoned Children
261