本文以女性角度為出發點，探討女性的家庭角色定位，和社會地位界定，如何影響各國家庭政策的發展。本文舉出美國、法國、丹麥3個國家，代表3種不同的思考方式，及其所發展出來的不同的家庭政策模式。美國家庭政策以「女性傳統母職和照顧者」為主，著重在照顧低收入戶等特殊團體，就業婦女托育需求由家庭和自由市場機制來解決。法國以「促進婦女就業」為重點，強調女性就業的特殊需要，由雇主提供相關福利，配合國家托育制度，減輕婦女出外就業的障礙。丹麥則著重「婦女的公民權」，超越女性的傳統角色和就業身分，以公民福利為出發設計家庭政策，提供全民的福利，保障人民的生活福祉。未來台灣在制定家庭政策及討論家庭政策如何影響女性生活時，這3個模式可以提供作為參考的模式。

This paper examines three different models of family policy development in three western countries: United States, France, and Denmark. Using different approach to define women’s role in family, in work, in society, these three countries develop its own family policy system. American government portraits women from traditional family roles as caregiver and mother, therefore, American family policy emphasizes on supporting families in poverty and special needs. French family policy aims to increase women’s labor participation; therefore, the government mandates the employers to provide employees generous paid maternal leaves and job protection related benefits. To help French women balance family and work responsibilities, French government also provides national childcare system to empower French women to work outside of the family. Denmark goes beyond women’s roles in family and in work and sees women as citizens as general. Thus, Denmark has the most comprehensive and generous family policy to support women and every citizens with the basic needs including housing stipend, family allowance, and national child care system and so on. These three different models, never the less, present good examples for Taiwan in looking for the possible direction of future family policy development.