Mitos y creencias sobre la vida familiar

Changes and inequality in Latin American families

“…Findings relating to family structures and home life cast doubt on the dominant traditional image, revealing the existence of a wide diversity of situations. Because of their systemic nature, gender inequities permeate the social fabric, so overcoming them requires changes in other mechanisms that perpetuate social inequality: hence the analytical importance of an approach that focuses on the overlap between this and other systems of inequality, relating to class, ethnic origin or life cycle (Ariza and De Oliveira, 2000;Salles and Tuirán, 1997).…”

“…In brief, modernity in the family is likely to be reflected in the exercise of democratic rights and autonomy among family members, together with a fairer distribution of labour (domestic and social), opportunities and family decision-making. This implies a new relationship based on asymmetries tempered by democratic principles (Salles and Tuirán, 1996).…”

“…It has been asserted that all three dimensions of the classic definition of the family -sexuality, procreation and cohabitation-have changed profoundly and have begun to evolve in different directions, resulting in a growing multiplicity of family and cohabitation models (Jelin, 1998). It is generally agreed that most of the changes in family structure are gradual and are influenced by family location (urban versus rural), social class and the various experiences that Latin American societies have gone through (Salles and Tuirán, 1997). Other changes have been very dynamic, however, including the extremely rapid evolution of the social roles of women both within and outside the family, the increase in their labour market participation, and the growing number of households headed by women.…”

“…The household surveys were processed by Ernesto Espíndola. 1 For example, the 2000 World Values Survey found that 96% of respondents in Chile considered the family the most important aspect of their lives (Corporación Latinobarómetro, 2000), while an opinion survey conducted in Mexico in 1994 found that 85% of those interviewed considered the family "very important" (quoted in Salles and Tuirán, 1996).…”

Transformaciones en Las Familias: Análisis Conceptual Y Hechos De La Realidad

“…Este comportamiento se ha analizado desde dos puntos de vista, uno refleja una visión pesimista, en donde se enfatiza la pérdida de valores, y se evalúa la situación como crisis de la familia (en IdESPo, 2003: citado en UNICEF, 2004. La otra visión considera el divorcio o la separación como una opción más con la que cuentan las personas para continuar con su proceso de desarrollo; enfrentando con realismo las dificultades, diferencias y problemas de la relación de pareja; por tanto, el divorcio forma parte de la lógica del matrimonio, ya no es vista como un sacramento eclesiástico indisoluble (Salles y tuirán, 1996). Así, las familias con jefatura en condición de divorcio se duplicaron y pasaron de 2,0% en 1984 a 4,2% en el 2000.…”