한부모가족 지원정책에 관한 비교법적 고찰

Abstract

As negative awareness of divorce gets faded away, recently, and individual’s happiness’ importance gets more strong, single parent families are getting increased. The reasons of making single parent are very various compared with the past such as divorces, death of parent, a single mother, abandonment and so on. These phenomena cause many problems including social prejudice, raise and education affairs, emotional problems. Although Korean government tries to satisfy single parent families’ desires through the National Basic Living Security and with Emergency Aid and Support Act, Infant Care Act, Framework Act on Healthy Families and etc., there are many limitation and lack of effectiveness of current Acts. For example, many single parent families can’t get support of legal systems. Therefore, an effective institutional strategies and support programs are needed to support for them to stand on their own. On the other hand, many developed countries have already offered a lot of entitlement benefits to help them stabilize of their lifehood and develop their independence ability compared with Korean government’s policies. It needs to argue and go over much more whether our government accept the foreign policies. However, it is certain that the various foreign policies have been made based on similar experiences with us. This study aimed to compare other countries examples which have similar situations with Korea and investigate how their policies effectively support and help single parent families of them.