Abstract
When family solidarity is undermined. The choices made by caregivers/ personal carers. A French law on adapting society to ageing, passed in December 2015, defines the family caregiver, thereby enshrining the moral obligation of family assistance in French legislation. The existence and role of those who provide daily care for a loved one who may be dependent, disabled or ill have thus been made visible. But women are more affected than men, and this moral obligation seems to be imposed in particular on those whose job it is to look after others. A study conducted on personal carers, employed privately and some of whom are family caregivers, in some cases paid by the loved one who depends on them, reveals three different profiles for the roles played by family caregivers : “pillars”, “pivots” and “adjusters”. These representations reveal the effects of social belonging on the naturalisation of their behaviours and highlight some of the underpinnings of family care, oscillating between a norm of internality and economic pragmatism.
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