|
KMID : 1124020180340020095
|
|
Korean Social Security Studies
2018 Volume.34 No. 2 p.95 ~ p.124
|
|
|
The Discussions on Population Polices and Family Policies in the Swedish State’s Research Committees in 1930s and 1940s
|
|
Shin Jeong-Wan
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
The starting point of the modern Swedish family policies were the population policies and family policies proposed in 1930s and 1940s by the State’s Research Committees concerning population issues. The Population Commssion(Befolkningskommission; 1935-38) and the Population Research Committee(Befolkningsutreding; 1941-46) proposed many policy programs to increase fertility rate, to reduce the families’ costs of bringing up children, and to strengthen the women’s right to childbirth choice. Important examples include the introduction of universal child allowance, free school lunch, and maternity bonus, and the abolition of the law preventing contraception, and the amendment of the abortion law for widening the scope of legal abortions. By the activities of the State’s Research Committees, the social norm was established that the childbirth and bringing up children are the responsibilities of the society. We can see both the continuity and the discontinuity between the family policies in 1930s-1940s and the postwar family policies, especially policies since 1960s. The socialistic elements and gender equality elements were succeeded and strengthened, while the eugenical and nationalistic elements were weakened or abandoned. The Population Research Committee proposed the introduction of universal child allowance and the abolishment of the tax credit for the families with children as the way of social redistribution of the costs of bringing up children, which seems also meaningful for South Korea.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
State's Research Committee, the Population Commission(Befolkningskommission), the Population Research Committee(Befolkningsutreding), population policies, family policies
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|