On Problems Of Safeguarding Lawful Rights Of The Rear Elderly In Rural Areas

The large number of the rear elderly is formed in rural areas result from aging of population brought by family planning and urbanization in China. Defending and guaranteeing lawful rights and interests of the elderly, especially of the rear elderly in rural areas, is the joint liability of the whole society and the basis of building harmonious society.The aim is how to get the rear elderly' s burden unloaded in rural areas, to spare their later years in safety, and to realize aging in healthy. The paper sets forth the effects of safeguarding lawful rights of the rear elderly in rural areas on society, family and person himself from historical background, theories and features of giving birth to the rear elderly in rural areas. Facing the weak function of endowment, the feeble legal restraint means and the hard existence elements of the rear elderly in rural areas, the author proposes a series of countermeasures against the types and systems of endowment and ways of judicial remedy. The writer also holds out much hope of realizing integration in urban and rural areas, sharing the reforming achievements, and being rich and healthy of the rear elderly in rural areas in future.The social phenomenon of the rear elderly resulted from aging of population and floating population produced by modernization and urbanization. The rear elderly in rural areas is a social not a domestic problem in social changing stage, which affected living space of the rear elderly, made being unharmonious between the old and the young generation, interfered the stability and development in rural areas. Population security being in danger can also restrict the proceedings of modernization and urbanization in rural areas and restrain sustainable development. The writer provides some researches on resolving the above social problem in theory and practice.