ABSTRACT
The marginalized class refers to some people who lose their capacity to work and in the survival predicament caused by diseases, misfortunes and other unforeseen circumstances. They are the “minority” in rural society, and it is appropriate to count them in the unit of family. The marginalized class is roughly involved in poor family because of sickness, the family losing their only child, the disabilities congenital or caused by accidental injury, group of divorced women without the land contract right, the family with no sons and all daughters marrying, villagers enjoying the “five guarantees”, villagers with social personality disorder (mostly, idlers), etc. As vulnerable groups in rural society, this kind of family or villagers should be given special attention and care. Their living conditions are the measurement scale of social policy and morality.
