Department of Social Work, School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 28;20(5):4327. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054327.
The one-child policy, i.e., of having only one child per couple, was adopted as the essential family policy in China from 1979, and since the beginning of the 21st century, it has given rise to problems of special families under the one-child policy caused by the death or disability of only children. The existing research focused on the issue of special families from a macro-social level and analyzed the welfare demands and welfare policies of those families, whereas less research has been concerned with the families' individual experiences and interpretations. This study adopted a qualitative research method and conducted in-depth interviews with 33 participants to analyze the welfare experiences of special families in Jinan city, Shandong Province. The findings of the study were based on generalized analyses of the interviews, including the "specialization" dimension of welfare experiences with identity-oriented, targeted, and comprehensive characteristics, the "de-specialization" dimension of welfare experiences with identity-denied, excluded, and hidden characteristics. The dynamics between the two dimensions among different special families, different family members, and different periods in the families' lives were also examined. We present a discussion of the study's findings and their implications, categorized into the theoretical and practical domains.
独生子女政策，即每对夫妇只生育一个孩子，自 1979 年以来被采纳为中国的基本家庭政策，自 21 世纪初以来，由于独生子女的死亡或残疾，独生子女政策下的特殊家庭问题已经出现。现有研究主要从宏观社会层面关注特殊家庭问题，分析这些家庭的福利需求和福利政策，而较少关注家庭的个体经验和解释。本研究采用定性研究方法，对山东省济南市 33 名参与者进行了深入访谈，分析了特殊家庭的福利经验。研究结果是基于对访谈的广义分析，包括福利经验的“专业化”维度，具有身份导向、有针对性和全面的特点，福利经验的“去专业化”维度，具有身份否认、排斥和隐藏的特点。还研究了不同特殊家庭、不同家庭成员以及家庭生活不同时期之间这两个维度之间的动态关系。我们对研究结果及其理论和实践意义进行了讨论。
