이혼가족 청소년을 회복시키는 기독교 이야기 정체감 교육

In the modern society, divorce is working as a major factor that changes the structure and form of the family. The divorce rate in our society increased sharply in 2014, and its social awareness has become common. In 2022, the number of divorces reached 93,232, of which 44.7% were cases with minor children. In order to overcome the dysfunction of divorce, various legal policies have been established in Korea, and social awareness is much more open, but research on children whose parents are divorced is insufficient and the subjects are somewhat limited. Given this situation, this study focuses on the identity issues faced by adolescents in single-parent families resulting from divorce. With the divorce of parents, adolescents are bound to experience various problems such as economic and emotional deprivation, parentalization due to environmental changes, conflict with parents or reversal of relationships, and social deprivation and confusion of identity. The discomfort of a single-parent family, along with the loss of friendly relationships and betrayal of the family, encourages the youth’s existential thinking, and the youth searches for meaning in efforts to overcome the experience of existence. In the midst of efforts to discover the unique meaning of life, adolescents form a story about the meaning of their life, or ‘self-myth’. Of course, ‘self-myth’ appears first in the original form of ‘individual allegory’, but is gradually formed as ‘self-myth' in conversation with reality. Adolescents’ ‘self-myth’ requires the process of expanding the concept of time, forming ideology, and exchanging with mirror self. When maladjusted to the divorce of parents, adolescents’ ‘self-myth’ becomes more of a tragedy than a comedy. Therefore, this study proposes a Christian story curriculum as an education that helps adolescents from single-parent divorced families to adapt. The Christian story curriculum is an education that promotes the transformation of adolescents’ ‘self-myth’ and proceeds with the composition and analysis of self-myth, Christian stories and exchanges as symbols, reinterpretation of self-myth with Christian stories, composition of future stories, and small group sharing. Christian stories have long operated as norms that form a sense of identity for individuals and communities. Although this study has limitations as a literature study, it contributes to contribute to academic discussions about adolescents’ adaptation problems and story identity.