37 workplace by following the 40-hour work week standard, protecting maternity workers, encouraging maternity workers to take shorter working hours during pregnancy, allowing paid leave for prenatal visits, encouraging paternity leave, promoting parental leave, allowing shorter working hours for child care, and allowing employees to take leave of absence to care after family. Then the government reviews the employees’ utilization of family-friendly company policies by examining how many employees return to work after taking leave of absence and the employment retention rate. After careful review, the government selects family-friendly certified companies and offers incentives. In 2014, 335 out of 3,123 large companies and 1,596 out of 3,542,350 small and medium-sized businesses were selected as family-friendly certified companies. 2) Questions 176. Is there a plan to increase the number of family-friendly certified companies? Why do small and medium-sized companies receive less family-friendly certification, and what are specific plans to resolve this? Issue 49. Adequate Standard of Living 1) Current status 177. In the Single Parent Family Survey in 2015 by the Statistics Korea, the average monthly income of single parent families was KRW 1.89 million, which was less than half of the overall average household disposable income of KRW 3.9 million. Also, single parent families’ average amount of net assets in 2014 was KRW 65.97 million, which only accounts for 19.8% compared to the average household net asset of KRW 333.64 million. As of 2018, the government is providing KRW 130,000 per month for child support to single parent or grandparent-headed families with lower income than 52% of a median income, and KRW 180,000 per month for child support to single parent families under 24 with lower income than 60% of a median income. 178. There are 125 residential facilities and four public facilities being operated as welfare facilities for single parent families as of December 2017, and a monthly living allowance of KRW 50,000 is provided to single parent families residing in the residential facility. The government is also building residential facilities with learning facilities exclusively for adolescent single parents and promoting the Support Self-Reliance Package for Adolescent Single Parents to help the adolescent single parents under 24 be self-reliant and guarantee their right to learn. 179. Child Benefits are provided to the families whose income level is under 90% since September 2018.