여성 1인 가구 증가에 따른 법제적 대응방안

Abstract

Rapid increase of one-person households means the dismantling of the traditional family concept and requires changing paradigm of functions of protection and care which has been responsible for by family into the state and society. As the causes of being one-person household and difficulties and needs they have experienced are different from each generation, we have to consider this to improve the related legislations regarding one-person household. Current law system, related to housing supply, tax, and social security, has been formed on the premise of traditional family, composed of a married couple and the children, and causes excluding one-person household from legal protection and making obstacles to enjoy their fundamental human rights such as the right to pursue one’s happiness, equal protection of law, and right to social security. In this study, we have to pay attention to the realities and difficulties of single women households, forming about 70 percent of all one-person households. As they have experienced worse working conditions, lower income and more vulnerabilities to crimes and diseases than men, the specialties and needs of single women households should be considered to make legal reactions to the continuous growth of people living alone. Therefore, more small-sized public rental housing with dwelling safety should be provided, more opportunities for working and job training for working-age women should be increased and more social security benefits for the older people should be enlarged. Furthermore, In preparation of One-person Household Era, we have to not only change legal systems based on multiple-member households but also abolish discriminative factors to single women household in the society at large.