Local Perspective of Housewife Women on Subjective Family Welfare

Abstract

Family social welfare studies have focused on objective welfare. Whereas there are two approaches in observing family welfare, namely objective family welfare and subjective family welfare. Objective family welfare is the family welfare approach that has been used by the government to determine a policy. Meanwhile, subjective welfare is related to self-assessment of the condition of oneself and their family and the surrounding environment. The question that is answered in this paper is how is subjective family welfare in the perspective of housewives from fishing families in Tabanio Village. Housewives are rarely studied in social welfare themes, their voices are rarely heard even though what they feel and what they value are a manifestation of their family situation. There are two main focuses in looking at the subjective welfare of the family used in this paper, namely positive values and optimism.