Abstract
Child rearing allowances, social security benefits for the poverty of one − person households, have not been provided properly, despite the fact that the Act on the Promotion of Policy on Child Poverty was established in 2013. This is because the child welfare of poor households guaranteed by child rearing allowances was converted into the workfare which promotes economic independence by working. Educational support was, to be sure, expanded drastically to provide free-of-charge infant education and nursing and grant-type scholarships. But such in-kind benefits of these educational services, which might give children a chance to be educated, are not a key to eliminating child poverty. Todayʼs promotion of policy on child poverty has changed the principle of child and family welfare that parents should raise their family and society should be responsible for it ： thus parents are now pressed to become independent economically by working, and children are also requested to cut off the cycle of poverty by themselves through education and studying.
