ABSTRACT
The pensionable age in the Employees' Pension program and in the National Pension program is 60 and 65 years. The impact of values on program development is vividly demonstrated by policy dilemmas generated by experience with universal and selective services which continue to receive attention. Policy issues that emerge from the mass of detailed material contained in single-country studies lend themselves to being presented in relation to groups of countries divided into developed democracies, developing socialist and nonsocialist societies, and developed socialist nations. In Denmark major policy issues emanate from a lack of clarity about the changing goals of social security and hence, from disagreements about the most efficient organizational structure to attain these goals. Family policy in the French setting conceptualizes the family as a unit, with attention centered on families with children while childless families are overlooked.
