Family Social Policies in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay
摘要
This chapter identifies the different social policies that currently affect families in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay. We researched the level of familiarisation that exists in these countries following the implementation of family policies. Family policies, whether cross-cutting or multisectoral, implicit or explicit, direct or indirect, are understood, in line with (Sátyro and Midaglia in Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 287‒314, 2021), as those aimed at: (1) personal, family, and work reconciliation; (2) care services for care-dependent people such as children, the elderly, or people with disabilities; (3) income protection; (4) intervention in family size and dynamics such as birth control or combating violence; and (5) non-existent policies, as they shine a light on the actions of government, which sometimes shifts its responsibility onto families, and specifically women, increasing familiarisation in these countries. The aim of this research is to offer a comparative analysis of existing family policies in these countries, as well as the level of familiarisation existing in them.