The state recognizes this in the large body of family laws that govern children's welfare, yet parents receive little help in meeting the life-changing obligations society imposes.

国家在大量管理儿童福利的家庭法律中承认了这一点，但在履行社会强加的改变生活的义务方面，家长得到的帮助很少。

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Their aim is to reduce people's dependency on the welfare state.

他们旨在减少人们对福利制度的依赖。

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The state is still the main provider of welfare.

政府仍然是福利的主要提供者。

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Plus,the retirement age has been raised. But,many Germans say austerity must not cut too deep into their cherished welfare state.

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He seems, in this way, to anticipate what we might think of as the modern welfare state that public assistance be provided, and the poor, not simply depend on the private goodwill of the others.

如此看来,霍布斯已经预见到了,我们现代社会国家福利制度的出现，穷人不只依靠个人的善意施舍度日,更多的是求助于国家提供的福利保障。

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"For our European welfare state to be maintained there have to be changes.

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It is actually a tragedy that Japanese society took the Bismarckian path of state welfare.

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Most live in poor black townships or shanty towns, ineligible for state welfare.

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Singapore has concluded that we cannot afford European-style state welfare, not because of dogma, but because our circumstances are different.

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