Family and Child Law in Chile

This chapter addresses how Chilean family and child law has grappled with the country’s three major social upheavals of the twenty-first century: (i) sit-ins during student protests in 2006; (ii) the social outburst of 2019, which sparked the current constitutional process amending the Constitution; and (iii) the COVID-19 pandemic which started in 2020. The chapter focuses particularly on the importance of international human rights standards and the principles of family and child law against the background of these crises.