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The Marriage Stewardship and the Role and Status of Social Development Network in Singapore

결혼 책임주의와 싱가포르 Social Development Network의 역할과 위상

  • 김명희 (삼육대학교 스미스 교양대학)
  • Received : 2017.11.13
  • Accepted : 2018.01.20
  • Published : 2018.01.28

Abstract

This paper focuses on how Singapore has adopted the 'Marriage Promotion Policy' for resolving the low birthrate and how it has been using the Social Development Network (SDN) to cope with the problem of low fertility. Social Development Network is an organization that shows Singapore's national stewardship to marriage, and has developed from the beginning to the social phenomenon of increasing number of highly educated women and decreasing fertility. The predecessor of Social Development Network is 'Social Development Unit' (SDU), absorbed the 'Social Development Service' (SDS) that was launched later, and reborn as Social Development Network in 2009. At its inception, Social Development Network has been recruiting and organizing its own memberships without the help of commercial marriage agencies, and since 2006 has been dedicated to delegating dating and matchmaking services to private companies and supporting projects. The purpose of this paper using literature analysis is to analyze the status and role of Social Development Network from the theoretical point of view of marital stewardship to the present, and to suggest meaningful implications for Korea which has the same social experience.

이 논문은 싱가포르가 저출산 해결을 위해 '결혼장려정책'을 도입하고 실행주체인 'Social Development Network'(사회개발네트워크)를 어떻게 활용하여 저출산 문제에 대처해왔는지에 초점을 맞춘다. Social Development Network는 결혼에 대한 싱가포르의 국가 책임주의를 잘 드러내는 조직으로서 출범부터 고학력 여성의 독신 증가와 출산력 저하라는 사회현상과 맞물려 발전해왔다. Social Development Network의 전신은'Social Development Unit'(SDU)이며 이후에 발족한 'Social Development Service'(SDS)를 흡수하여 2009년 Social Development Network로 재탄생했다. 출범 시 Social Development Network는 상업적 결혼대행기관들의 도움 없이 자체적으로 회원을 모집하고 조직적인 활동을 추진해오다가 2006년부터는 민간업체들에게 데이트와 중매 서비스 활동을 위임하고 프로젝트를 지원하는데 집중해왔다. 이 논문은 문헌분석을 활용하여 싱가포르 결혼장려정책의 지원주체로서 결혼에 관한 책임주의 이론적 관점에서 출범 이후 현재에 이르는 Social Development Network의 위상과 역할을 분석하고 동일한 사회적 경험을 하고 있는 한국에 의미 있는 시사점을 제시하는데 목적을 둔다.

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