Analysis on the Pension Problems in Loss-of-Single-Child Family: A Perspective of Public Policy

Abstract

In the family, if the only child unfortunately died, the family is thus called “loss of independence families”. In recent years, with the increasing of loss-of-single-child family, society has paid more and more attention to the pension problems. Based on a perspective of public policy, combined with the specific practices of the Chinese central government and some provinces and cities, this paper uses the public policy of the analysis theory of elite theory to analyze the status of the loss-of-single-child family, and give the corresponding countermeasures about pension problem of loss-of-single-child family from three aspects: economic support, life care, and spiritual support.