The Rural Family Supporting Problems Under The Social Transformation

The rural family endowment is affected by the change of social background. The change of social structure has broken the traditional customs and system specification, Influenced by individualism, market of rationalism, lead to the decline of rural elders power in the society. The younger generation emphasizes the right and neglect the duty, destroyed the ethical base of inter-generational equilibrium. The family property disputes and pension liability disputes is more and more. On the one hand, inter-generational relationship between father and son has change, because of the economic status and power inversion occurs, parents relative to their children in a vulnerable position. On the other hand, due to the promotion of the position of women, in traditionally, daughters do not assume responsibility and obligation to support their parents, playing an increasingly important role in my parents'support and inheritance now.Contemporary Chinese society is in the process from "traditional" to "modern", rural society is experiencing the transformation from ethics society to legal society. In this transformation process, because of urbanization, land prices rising, the essence of the land dispute distorts the pension dispute. one side, children for the old man's land and housing land;on the other side, for the old man's housing demands and life care mutual shuffle.In addition, land system is imperfect, the old man's land rights and interests have been blurred, the old man's land rights are confronted with difficulty. The elderly rights practice is imperfect, the government law enforcement, negative so that when the old man in the rights and interests is encroached. Sue to the court must take the initiative to rights effectively, for a rural elderly, this is a very complicated things, it's hard to do. This a series of factors lead to the old man's endowment problems. Reflected in each case, not only is the internal individual factors, family or regional factors, but the whole social under the background of social transition in China, rural elderly family endowment is facing potential institutional and structural problems. National laws and regulations lag, pension policy does not reach the designated position, make the rural elderly life depends entirely on childrens filial piety. If the children do not provide enough and effective support for the old man, they will fall into poverty and unfortunate situation.