저출산 극복을 위한 일본의 출산양육지원 정책의 실과 허

Abstract

Japan has come up with various policies to increase the birth rate by enhancing the child raising environments. However, the burden for raising child has not been solved, and Japan’s birth rate so low that it is even lower than the 1.57 shock incident. The reason Japan cannot recover its birth rate is because of the economic recession, irregular employments, quantity deficiency in policies, and lack of supporting policy for housewives. As we take a look at the various child care policies, there were not so much successful because those only focus on the child care only for the children with working moms. Therefore, there is a need for a new supporting policy from a new perspective. This research worked on a new supporting system through Japan’s general child care policy and preceding researches. The result showed that the policy only for working moms definitely demonstrated some limitation on its effect, and it lacks the societal networking system. Particularly, all the researches that have been done to increase the effects on overcoming the low birth rate are supposed to give priorities based on precedents; however, the plans were only focused on coming up with new innovative policies without a careful consideration. Furthermore, for child healthy upbringing policy, it is necessary to adopt a general welfare service and enhance general benefits. Such policies would be indispensable factors in overcoming economic burden. Therefore, there is a need to consider the living environments for parents with children and to promote a more effective policy that comes with a continuous countermeasure.