Abstract
A Study on the Child Support Measures for Grandparents in the Dual-income Households | |||
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Type | Basic | Period | 2015 |
Manager | Yoo Hee Jung | Date | 2016-01-05 |
Fiie | 1. A Study on Child Support Measures for Grandparents in Double-Income Households.pdf ( 1.5 MB ) | ||
Grandparents in the Dual-income Households
Yoo Hee Jung
First, support expense should be funded to the grandparents who are taking care of the child rearing. When an infant from 0-2 years old are not utilizing the social child care support organizations, the study suggest the support should provide at least 30% to 50% of the support funding. In other words, when the grandchild is 0 years old, the support funding should be 300,000 won per month, at 1 years old, 250,000 won to 350,000 won and at 2 years old, 200,000 won to 250,000 won. Second, there need a support assistant to help care for the child rearing for the grandparents. If grandparents‘ child care support can be utilized as an alternative to infant rearing, it is constituted as an all day care. At this time, there is a need to alleviate the burden of grandparents. Therefore, support assistant such as caretaker or secondary teachers are needed to give some time of rest for the grandparents. And for each districts, 1-2 times per week, this study propose a measure to utilize this caretaker support system. Third, this study suggest, there needs a program which can support grandparents to raise their grandchildren. For securing the space for the child support by the grandparents, it can be utilized by using the existing local community‘s child care support centers. Through out using these organizations, there should be programs where grandparents can gather up together to jointly exchange child rearing information, support information and child support counselling. Therefore, this study suggests that these programs should be instituted under the names of Baby Playground or Parenting Sharing Center where support programs for the grandparents can be promoted. Fourth, when the support cost for grandparents are initiated by the government, management for the program is needed to efficiently derive the performance. Fifth, for the families in poverty and grandparent headed family, there need a comprehensive support such as providing the minimum cost of living, providing jobs for the grandparents and supporting raising the grandchildren. |