The Role Of Daughters In Rural Family Aging Security

With aging process in rural areas,the scholars have paid more attentions to the pension problem in rural areas.It is a fact that there exists the lack of social endowment insurance system in rural areas,because of the limit of many factors. The old people in rural areas are mainly supported by their family for a long time.The ouflowing of rural labors resulted in the decline of the traditional culture of the filial piety,which causes the supporting crisis in rural areas.This essay based on an ethnography of a small village in middle areas of Anhui province aims to describe and analyze the condition of supporting old people in rural countries. On one hand,the rural areas lack the social insurance system.On the other hand,it is not enough to have the idea that the old people are only supported by sons.The article explores the role of the daughters in supporting the old people and its influencing factors.Suggestions to improve the role of daughters to supporting the old people are provided.