Parents’ career values are such that they support self-determined career choices (63.1%) and open-minded gender role(63.1%), but they also value pay and stability (72.7%) associated with jobs, and tend to think some occupations are more valuable than others (67.5%).
The main routes through which parents acquire career information are acquaintances (55.3%), including friends and other parents, and broadcasting media (54.9%).
Parents’ participation rate in career education for their children is low at 20.6%, with the participation rate of parents of specialized vocational school students standing at 14.5%, which is not even half as high as those of special-purpose high school students (38.1%) and autonomous high school students (33.8%).
Looking at parents’participation rates in career education with reference to their occupation, the participation rates of parents in managerial jobs (21.3%) and professional jobs (20.5%) are higher than those of parents who are in production(11.3%) or farmers and fishermen (14.7%). In addition, the participation rates of parents with high income (26.7%) and parents with high levels of education (23.5%) are higher than those of parents with low income (10.4%) and parents with low levels of education (16.9%). The figures indicate that there is a risk of polarization of career education of parents.