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Maintain A Family: Thus, a family allowance system provides for a regular allowance to every family for the support of each child as a normal supplement to family income, in recognition of the fact that the family with children carries a heavier economic burden than the childless family. The net effect is to maintain a family or increase the families' standards of living through equalization of costs of maintain a familying dependents. The allowance provides benefits for adopted and foster children as well as for natural children.
Services to Support or Reinforce Parental Capacity — Protective Services.
Education in China is highly valued by the government and the people, and facilities, resources and standards are constantly being improved. In spite of such improvements, demand for preschool provision still outweighs supply. The decline of the extended family group in China has exacerbated this problem. In the current economic climate, where both parents need to work to maintain a family a reasonable standard of living, the small nuclear family is unable to handle child-care and so looks to kindergartens and pre-primary classes (run by neighbourhood committees, the place of work, the state or private institutions).
Most of the department's responsibilities— the education of children, health care, and the provision of succor when misfortune (death, disability, illness, or incapacity to work) hits—were, in earlier times, the responsibility of the family. The department's central function is to maintain a family and strengthen the family as a social unit. A secretary is confronted by a succession of pro Eosals—for example, for the support of schools ar children three to five years old, for the health care of draft rejectees, for larger Medicare benefits for the aged, or for day-care centers to aid working mothers.
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