Strengthen Connection between Family and Community: Social Protection of Covert Unattended Children in Context of Rural Governance Innovation

Abstract

Rural fact orphan include abandoned infants, street children, scattered orphans, earthquake orphans and other easily identifiable fact unattended children, as well as hidden fact unattended children whose parents are alive but whose families give up or lose ability to care, such as with broken nuclear family structure and single parent families, and children who have no fact family care due to their parents' long-term migrant work. Based on analytical framework of "National and social protection -kinship support -Community Connection", it explains that under policy background of connection between poverty alleviation and orphan protection, rural communities, through governance of folk customs under government, from aspects of public security maintenance, the creation of a safe environment, popularization of the concept of rule of law, cultivation of moral style, guidance of public opinion, division of responsibilities. The multi-dimensional construction of the link, such as risk prevention and control, has not only realized inheritance of spontaneous, unstable rescue and protection structure, but also promoted joint participation of multiple subjects and formation of a broader mechanism, and fully activated the rescue force contained in folk customs and social policy system, realize connection of multiple protection ties for children who are actually unattended and the innovation of social protection system.