However, because coupled parents’ relationships play an important role in child development, some countries support marriage and parental counselling services. In others, like Japan and Korea, birth rates are closely tied to marriage rates, and policy initiatives to sustain the birth rate often include measures to promote marriage. One such example is the Third Plan for Ageing Society and Population in Korea that spans the years 2016 to 2020 (Government of the Republic of Korea, 2015).