Abstract: For a long time, China has been adopting a decentralized model of child welfare legislation. This model of legislation has the advantages of being flexible, convenient and quick in time. However, it would lead to the lack of uniformity of laws, causing disorders or even conflicts among laws and regulations. In order to promote the legal construction of child welfare and get rid of the plight of the rule of law for child welfare, this paper considers comprehensively such factors as economy, politics, historical culture and international environment, then it proposes that the legislative model of child welfare in China should adopt the inclusive, society participated and comprehensive types in terms of the scope of coverage, the subject of liability and formula. During the process of the construction of the legal system for child welfare in the future, the formulators should on one hand make overall plans for the scientific design of the basic laws for the child welfare, and on the other hand, they should ensure the coordination of the separate laws and the basic law and promote the multi-cooperation of the legal system of child welfare.

Key words: child welfare; inclusive legislation model; rescue-type legislation model; integrated legislation model