The Present Situation And Construction Path Of The Children Welfare System In China

The interests of the children reflects the national interest. Child Welfare is an important part of the social security system. The institutional improvement of Child Welfare promotes the social stability and development. It is also a symbol of social civilization and progress.Since the 60 th anniversary of China’s founding, the rapid development of national economy laid a solid foundation of China’s Child Welfare. Especially the year 2010, General Office of the State Council published Opinions on strengthening Orphan security. The academics referred to as “the First Year of Child Welfare of China”.The career of Child Welfare ushered in a new stage of development, but also facing choices and challenges. At present, China is experiencing an important historical time of social transformation. In this context, problems of children and families are intensified. The development of Child welfare in China is still facing a lot of problems and insufficient. The most prominent problem is that we need a wider range of objects, richer and higher-levels of content and an improved universality. The Child Welfare system is in an urgent need of innovations. What kind of scientific way of developing China should choose is the real problem which must be solved.This thesis contains seven parts including introduction and conclusion.Chapter one is introduction, mainly discuss the background, significance, research methods of selected topic and the research status of China’s Child Welfare situation given by domestic theoretical circles and also some status of foreign Child Welfare. It also introduces the innovation and the key point of this thesis.The second chapter explains the connotation of children and Child Welfare. Children are a special social group. It has the social natures of fundamentality, expansibility and futurity. Special children’s group is getting more and more attentions because of social development. The classification of children in today’s society indicates an important part of Child Welfare frame construction. The part Child Welfare will be further discussed in both general and narrow sense. With combination of children’s characteristics analysis, Chapter two gives the connotation of Child Welfare that really asked by today’s society.Four parts for China’s Child Welfare will be systematically discussed in the third chapter: law system, management mechanism, social security system, special Child Welfare situation. It targets to the basic status of system and outstanding phenomenon in current society, aiming to give an objective and integrated structure of Child Welfare system construction.By analyzing the basic status of Child Welfare system and social contradictions, Chapter four concludes existing problems of three aspects through illustrating and data analyzing: insufficient basic secure ability for orphan, a severe shortage for special children and frequent occurred violation of children’s rights. Especially generalized and analyzed the Child abuse event through the method of induction. Problems mentioned above showed the weakness of China’s Child Welfare, and making people think.Chapter five analyses the reasons for these problems in the field of Child Welfare at present: ineffectively implemented of children benefit maximization concept, insufficient responsibility consciousness of the main body of the country, the imperfect legal system construction, the lack of effective children welfare administration management system, unsound child welfare security system construction and low level of children welfare service. According to the three problems mentioned in Chapter four and the status of China’s Child Welfare, this chapter brings up reasons with analysis and illustrations detail by detail.The sixth chapter puts forward suggestions for further development of Child Welfare system in China. Firstly, to make clear of the direction for the development of Child Welfare construction and give targeted countermeasures for chapter five. Secondly, to accelerate the legal system construction process of Child Welfare, to speed up the legislation and establish a mechanism for the judicial process. Thirdly, to establish a unified management system of Child Welfare, authoritative administrations and judicial review institutions are in desperate need. Meanwhile, government needs to increase financial investment and comprehensive information network. Fourthly, Government needs to perfect the security system of Child Welfare and to improve sound society welfare, and to improve the family supervision, supporting mechanism and the resettlement system. Fifthly, enhance the service level of Child Welfare. Utilizing social resources develop philanthropy. Those countermeasures are made in view of practically problems, showing the direction of development of children’s welfare in China.The seventh chapter is conclusion. Combining self experience of author, this chapter will give brief summarize for the structure of this thesis, emphasize the center argument and at the same time looking forward to the development of child welfare in our country.