This study looked into present state and characteristics of the social network including children of separated parents, siblings, neighbors, friends, etc, focusing on the type of residence of children of separated parents based on the result of the study of their separated condition. The results of the study are as follows.
1) The majority of children of separated parents freely interacted more than once a week and it was shown that the children who lived the nearest to their parents had most frequent interaction, therefore the type of residence and condition interaction were closely related.
2) In the case of siblings, it was shown that extraordinary interactions comprised the majority of the overall interaction, but there was also much emotional support given and received as shown by their maintaining important supportive relationships with each other.
3) In the case of neighbors, they maintained neighborly relationships of mutual support and it was shown that as the parent?child relationship became more distant, they received more support from their neighbors. There were many occasions that friends were made by social human relationships, but there were also many instances in which friends were formed by neighborly relationship which were formed near the center of residencp.

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In South Korea the prospect of a rapidly aging society implies that, among thediverse needs of welfare and housing, interest in the housing problems of the woman's elderly is particularly high. The purpose of thisstudy is to investigate the preferred living environment by the married female workers after retirement. The data were collected frominterviews and questionnaire of 30 persons selected from the married female workers in Busan. The results are summarized as follows:(1) About half of them are going to work after retirement. it was correlated with factors such as occupational description, individual volitionto work, and years of continued service.(2) As for their residence, the residence of a proper scale was required with space convenient forcleaning, meal preparation, etc. rather than large scale of it. Moreover, the conditions of living environment for them, the distance andthe time required from a place of residence to a workplace were important.(3) They liked to more apartment than independent houseas a residence after retirement, even if they have had experience at the independent house in the childhood. The housing purchaseafter retirement was influenced by academic background and income.(4) The preferred living style after retirement was toshare the common space with other residents who have the same way of organizing a dwelling, but they desired to keep a private life.

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This study aims to be useful in the preparation of a law system concerning the right to use nationally-owned urban land in China, based on a comparative study of the Japanese and Chinese law systems, considering the specific situation of China etc. Finally as a result, three suggestions or viewpoints that should be adopted in China are proposed as follows:
1.Take the shape of the non-renewable conditions or the public compulsory purchase system of land.
2.The law system about the right to use nationally-owned urban land must be diversified in China, therefore application of the law ought to be flexible.
3.Introduction of judicial powers into the law system concerning the right to use nationally-owned urban land in China.

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