In 2005, in Korea, the birth rate in total was fallen to be 1.08 person to be the lowest historically and to jeopardize national competitiveness.
The birthrate of Korea of 1.08 person was lower than the average of OECD countries of 1.6 person to prod...
In 2005, in Korea, the birth rate in total was fallen to be 1.08 person to be the lowest historically and to jeopardize national competitiveness.
The birthrate of Korea of 1.08 person was lower than the average of OECD countries of 1.6 person to produce uncertainty of the nation at large and to reflect causes of low birthrate in various ways and to make efforts to improve it and to be interested in children more than before.
Low birthrate was created because of various factors, for instance, women's participating in the society, high burden of childcare, women's burden of childcare, less reliance upon children at old age and changes of both marriage rates and marriage ages in accordance with changed values of marriage: In particular, the women thought much of economic burden of high childcare costs as well as women's burden of childcare.
To solve low birthrate fundamentally, good social conditions were urgently required to bring up children at will.
In Korea, childcare business was legally based on entity, objects, methods and financial sources of medical treatment as well as private childcare to require public childcare. To reinforce public childcare, social need for childcare and associated national support were firstly required.
These days, the government adopted childcare policies elevating public childcare levels from point of view of universalism because more women participated in the society to develop feminism.
Actually, private day care centers in the nation, for instance, private day care centers and home day care, accounted for 84.1% to accommodate 67.1% of total children who made use of day care centers and to rely on private day care.
Day care centers in the nation were mostly occupied by private day care centers: Unless such a problem was solved, public childcare could not be made.
Therefore, problems of the government's childcare policy should be supplemented by expansion of public day care centers, financial sources of childcare charges and differential childcare charges, etc and improvement of childcare quality.
The government was demanded to establish and put in practice children welfare function not to follow women policy but to guarantee childcare rights and women welfare function enough to satisfy women's participating in the society and total welfare function that performed home welfare by indirect income support of living costs by employing poor family member.