摘要：Korean families have been undergone tremendous changes during the past three decades with societal changes. Korean families become smallr,diverse,and muli-cultural. These family changes challenge child development research. Family is not just an intimate reltionship. Family is also a structural environment,a system linking micro and macro system,an instion,and an ideology. Consequently, researchers need to pay atention to various ways family infuence child development and take into account family as a whole unit. Researchers are also challenged to make a stance regarding family changes and diversity. Temporality is another important isue in studying how family development and child development interact. In terms of public policy,social services should be developed to cope with the new social risks from family changes and to mitigate a growing developmental gap among the children of families with different economic classes.
关键词：family structure change;diverse families;Linkage between family and child development;new social risk;child-related policy
