A Study Of Social Support System In China Childlessness&Empty-nest Families

Childlessness&Empty-nest Families problem become a China social issue in recentyears. Based on “2012Suzhou Childlessness&Empty-nest Families Investigation” data,the basic situation of Suzhou Childlessness&Empty-nest Family is analyzed in this paper.Chinese Childlessness&Empty-nest Families due to the losing of their only child weresuffering serious lacking of social support. The shortage of social support will makeChildlessness&Empty-nest Families’ life to be more difficult, leading various kinds ofproblems. In March of2013, Suzhou’s government launched a new Childlessness&Empty-nest Family support policy. In order to know the social support situation of SuzhouCEFs, first step is to clearly describe all government support policy of CEFs and thosepolicies effects. Then this paper focused on investigating the possible changes in CEFsafter support policy implantation. This paper combined Suzhou support policy with theSuzhou Childlessness&Empty-nest Families’(CEFs) current situation as the researchcontext, and then made a longitudinal comparison between before CEFs support policy andafter CEFs support policy.This paper through used integrating case analysis, group interview in this longitudinalcomparison finding positive psychological and emotional changes have taken place inSuzhou CEFs after the implementation of government support policy. However, there arestill lots of deficiencies in those government CEFs support policies after using surveymethod to investigation and analysis. The survey showed nowadays’ Suzhou CEFs socialsupport system is still not sufficient and has many unreasonable and short points. Base onthis situation, the last part of this paper is to propose the government to promote publicservice socialization level, public service specialization level and improving public servicemonitoring, regulatory assessment, and enhance CEFs social support system.