Family Arrangements Research Articles

Imagining Families

Feminist scholarship highlights the key role the family plays in promoting or hindering gender equality. This article explores how young university students ( N = 1,038) imagine their future regarding family arrangements in the Maule region (Chile). Quantitative and qualitative data suggest young people recognize and value diversity in family ideals, with significant gender differences. However, Chilean legislation and public social policy take the traditional family as the blueprint for state action, jeopardizing those projects that depart from the traditional one. Public policy and social work need to acknowledge the multiplicity of family ideals held by the younger generations to promote gender equality.

The Ambiguous Construction of Nondominant Masculinity: Configuring the “New” Man through Narratives of Choice, Involved Fatherhood, and Gender Equality

This article explores the development of gender equality-oriented (heterosexual) masculinity discussing the challenges of constructing nondominant masculine identities in the context of the Danish welfare state. Combining narrative methods with the theoretical framework of masculinity as cultural repertoire, the article offers a qualitative study examining how three Danish men construct (gender) identity in relation to being the partners of career-oriented and high-achieving women. Analyzing the men’s narrative negotiations of power, gender, and self, the article identifies three central narratives produced by the men to render themselves and their family arrangements intelligible and desirable. Considering how the narratives of (1) choice, (2) involved fatherhood, and (3) gender equality work as strategies to negotiate and reconstruct the meaning of compliance and autonomy, I delineate and discuss how traditional notions of what it means to be a man are simultaneously preserved and destabilized. Thus, the article demonstrates that, while nurturing practices and the loss of traditional male breadwinner authority can be positively reconstituted within the Nordic ideals of intensive parenting and gender equality, a fear of male subordination still seems to affect the construction of masculine selves even among gender equality–oriented “new” men.

O trabalho de músicos no Brasil: tensões identitárias e arranjos domésticos

El mercado de trabajo de músicos en Brasil es heterogéneo en diversos aspectos. Se caracteriza por la informalidad y la precarización, además de la segmentación de género, tanto en sentido de formas musicales como en el de relaciones sociales de sexo y construcción de representaciones sociales correlativas. El propósito del texto es analizar el trabajo de músicos en Brasil destacando el reciente desplazamiento ocupacional que afecta las identidades profesionales y las prácticas de conciliación y los arreglos domésticos en domicilios donde viven los músicos. La metodología utiliza una aproximación cuali-cuantitativa y triangulación de fuentes: bases de datos gubernamentales, survey que emplea perfiles en internet seleccionados por web scraping y entrevistas. El análisis factorial exploratorio con base en variables relacionadas al trabajo doméstico y al trabajo musical identificó cinco factores: arreglo tradicional de delegación, trabajo musical competitivo, arreglo de conciliación societaria, conciliación interna, conciliación comunitaria. Se encontró que el tipo de delegación tradicional, con empleo doméstico, no se explica solo por la relación entre el trabajo reproductivo y el productivo, con la tradicional desvaloración o subalternización del primero, pero por una construcción de género que resulta destinando a las mujeres, minoritarias en la ocupación, a las actividades de enseñanza en educación superior y a la ubicación en formaciones estables, generalmente con rendimientos más altos y formas de contratación menos flexibilizadas. Las estrategias de conciliación que involucran el trabajo musical refleten la distinción, en un contexto de rasgos culturales y sociales específicos, entre orientarse por una asistencia disponible en el mercado de servicios, por el Estado o por arreglos familiares, vistas como tipos ideales, ya que estas prácticas se interpenetran. Sin embargo, el panorama actual, si considerado desde los factores extraídos, revela un desequilibrio en relación con la experiencia y la teorización en países con políticas públicas de conciliación entre familia y trabajo más consolidadas, como una articulación que sería indicada, por ejemplo, en la combinación, en un mismo factor, de prácticas conciliatorias internas o comunitarias y recurso a instituciones societarias de servicios sociales.

Perfil de idosos submetidos à avaliação geriátrica ampla em serviço de reabilitação

Objective: To describe the profile of older people submitted to comprehensive geriatric assessment in a rehabilitation service. Methods: Retrospective documentary descriptive study conducted at a rehabilitation service in Goiânia, Goias, Brazil, with older patients submitted to Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment from December 2014 to December 2015. Information on gender, age, marital status, family arrangement, education, body mass index, polypharmacy, urinary incontinence, and physical activity were collected from medical records and submitted to statistical analysis. Results: The mean age of the population was 70.4 years (± 7.8). In all, 67.45% (n=228) of the participants are women, 50.29% (n=170) have 1-4 years of study, 44.38% (n=150) are married, 56.21% (n=190) live with relatives, and 77.51% (n=262) are sedentary. Urinary incontinence is prevalent in 49.53% (n=107) of the women, although it is quite relevant in men, with a rate of 21.81% (n=24). In all, 48.82% (n=165) of the participants presented polypharmacy, 77.51% (n=262) are sedentary and 59.17% (n=171) are overweight. Conclusion: Most participants are young old, women, sedentary, have low education, are married, live with relatives, and are overweight. The highest prevalence of urinary incontinence and polypharmacy occurs in women.

Parental involvement and adolescent smoking in vocational setting in Finland.

The present study examined whether parental involvement in their adolescents' lives is associated with adolescent smoking in a vocational school setting when controlling for socioeconomic background and parental smoking. The study was conducted in spring 2013 and involved 34 776 Finnish vocational school students (mean age 17.6 years). The data were analyzed using multinomial regression. The results showed that lower parental involvement was significantly associated with adolescent daily smoking in both genders and with occasional smoking in girls. Parental daily smoking predicted adolescent daily smoking, and this association was also seen for those adolescents whose mother and father had quitted smoking. Furthermore, our results indicate that mothers' smoking may be more influential on adolescents' smoking than fathers' smoking. Multivariate analysis showed that living in a nuclear family or alternately with both parents in two homes decreased daily smoking in both genders compared to living in other family arrangements.

The economic crisis and changes in work–family arrangements in six European countries

Over the past decades, there has been a substantial increase in female labour force participation, and the number of dual-earner and female-earner households has risen throughout western countries....

Parental break-ups and stress: roles of age & family structure in 44 509 pre-adolescent children.

Parental break-up is wide spread, and the effects of parental break-up on children's well-being are known. The evidence regarding child age at break-up and subsequent family arrangements is inconclusive. Aim: to estimate the effects of parental break-up on stress in pre-adolescent children with a specific focus on age at break-up and post-breakup family arrangements. We used data from the Danish National Birth Cohort. Participants included 44 509 children followed from birth to age 11. Stress was self-reported by children at age 11, when the children also reported on parental break-up and post break-up family arrangements. Twenty-one percent of the children had experienced a parental break-up at age 11, and those who had experienced parental break-up showed a higher risk of stress (OR:1.72, 95%CI:1.55;1.91) regardless of the child's age at break-up. Children living in a new family with stepparents (OR = 1.63, 95%CI:1.38;1.92), or shared between the parents (OR = 1.48, 95%CI:1.26;1.75) reported higher stress than children of intact families. Single parent families reported markedly higher stress levels than children in intact families (OR = 2.18, 95%CI:1.90;2.50) and all other family types. Children who were satisfied with their living arrangements post-break-up reported the same stress level as children living in intact families (OR = 1.01, 95%CI:0.86;1.18). Children who experience parental break-up have higher stress levels, also many years after the break-up, and those living in a single parent household post break-up seem to be most vulnerable. Living arrangements post-breakup should be further investigated as a potential protective factor.

Marriage, Cohabitation and Participation in Domestic Labor: Men and Women in Contemporary Italy

This work aims to study whether cohabiting couples tend to introduce new patterns in the allocation of domestic labor compared to married couples or if emergent family arrangements tend to follow traditional models. After a discussion of the theoretical issues involved, the results of an analysis on the time spent by partners on domestic labor will be presented. This analysis focuses on differences in the type of relationship individuals are in; that is, whether they are married or cohabiting. A comparison between men and women will be carried out. The data used in the analyses come from the national representative survey Multi-Purpose Family Survey Aspects of Daily Life, carried out in 2012 by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). The results suggest that even after taking into account other factors which tend to affect time spent in domestic labor, cohabitation appears to be a different model of partnership for women as opposed to marriage. This result is not valid for men. Men and women show different patterns of involvement into domestic labor and family life.

Competing Desires

Family migration often disadvantages women’s careers. Yet, we know little about the decision-making processes that lead to such outcomes. To address this gap, I conducted a longitudinal interview study of 21 heterosexual young adult couples who were deciding whether to move for early career opportunities. Analyzing 118 interviews, I detail how partners negotiate their desired work and family arrangements given structural and cultural constraints. On one negotiation trajectory, partners maintained their egalitarian desires by performing practical labor to make equal work–family arrangements. On another pathway, couples changed their desires by doing emotion work to justify neotraditional roles. On the last pathway, men deferred to women’s desires, unintentionally leaving women the emotional and practical work of coordinating two careers and the couple’s life. These pathways show how couples contest and reproduce gendered work and family roles during the stalled gender revolution.

“[We] had not the ties of blood to unite us”

Beatrice Turner, “‘[We] had not the ties of blood to unite us’: Family Genius and Family Blood in William Godwin Jr.’s Transfusion” (pp. 457–484) This essay recuperates Transfusion; or, the Orphans of Unwalden (1835), the posthumously published and forgotten novel of William Godwin’s only son, William Godwin Jr. It argues that Godwin Jr.’s absence from Godwin-Shelley circle scholarship is a critical oversight given the complex personal and intellectual relationship between writing and family, which, as numerous critics have noted, defines this circle of authors. Attention to Transfusion reveals a Gothic novel expressly concerned with articulating a biological idea of the family, dramatizing the fatal consequences of “porous” family arrangements that transgress the absolute boundaries erected by blood. Godwin Jr. mobilizes early-nineteenth-century proto-evolutionary discourses and biomedical theories in order to reject the viability of socially constructed or affective familial structures, reflecting cultural anxieties about how to define the family and, ultimately, the species. However, the novel’s deterministic account of family relations appears also directly to oppose the contractual family ideal that characterized both how Godwin Sr. imagined the family and, to a lesser extent, how the Godwin-Shelley family constituted itself. I argue that Transfusion speaks directly to Godwin Jr.’s “outsider” position in the family, interrogating how the Godwin-Shelley family imagines itself and its family “canon,” and opens up opportunities for significant further work on this writing family.

Getting in the game and getting on the move: family, the intergenerational contract and internal migration into football academies in Ghana

This article examines how young Ghanaian football players and their families actively engage with the processes and decision-making that lead them to migrate internally to academies. In particular, it explores whether moving to an academy is understood within the family setting as a precursor to international migration and as such, might feature as part of a broader household livelihood strategy. Drawing on empirical data collected during nine months of ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, the article sheds light on the experiences of players who encounter the recruitment processes employed by academies and how these are shaped and informed by Ghanaian family arrangements and in particular the social norm of intergenerational reciprocity. By uncovering these wider dynamics, this study challenges the popular assumption that African youth and their family members unambiguously view academies as vehicles for international migration and future prosperity.

WPŁYW PRAWA BIZANTYJSKIEGO NA OPIEKĘ W RUSKIEJ PRAWDZIE I W I STATUCIE LITEWSKIM

The influence of Byzantine law on tutelage in the Russkaya Pravda and th e First Lithuanian StatuteThe article is dedicated to the influence that Byzantine law had on Russian law (with a particular focus on the Russkaya Pravda) and on the First Lithuanian Statute of 1529.The paper analyses the main channels of influence that Byzantine law had on the ancient Russian law. It happened primarily through intensive trading and political contacts between Kiev and the Byzantine Empire. Such contacts, without any doubt, were established as early as the first half of the 10th century. An important factor in the influence Byzantine law exerted on Russian law was constituted by treaties (known as „dogovory”) concluded between these states in the years 907, 911, 944, and 971. The influence of Byzantine law in Rus intensified especially after the Kievan princes adopted Christianity in its Greek tradition in 988. At that time, Byzantine law codes spread across Rus; an important role in their spreading was played by the so-called Kormchie Knigi, which contained the norms of church and secular law. The codes were bound to influence legal practice, especially in the field of family, guardianship and inheritance law, which traditionally lay within the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts. At the same time, princes significantly intensified their legislative activity. The acts of the Kievan and Novgorod princes are inspired by the solutions adopted in Greek law, and contain many references to this law. The influence also spread onto the Russkaya Pravda (Russian Justice), especially in its later version. All in all, the influence of Byzantine law in Rus was quite significant, which fostered the development of Russian law. It mostly affected private law and procedural law, but also, to a limited extent, criminal law. In the field of private law, the strongest influence of Greek law was felt in marriage, guardianship and family law.The provisions o f the Russkaya Pravda with respect to guardianship were modeled on the respective regulations of the codes of Byzantine law - the Ecloga and the Procheiron. The Russian code defined the position of the widow in a way reminiscent of Byzantine law - after the husband's death she was the continuer of the previous family arrangement; her rights to family property (of which she could freely dispose) and relations with children were also defined in a similar manner. Similarities can also be discerned in the regulations on the remarriage of widows, in particular, the legal consequences of this act: remarriage resulted in the loss of the right of custody over children in favor of the husband’s relatives.These provisions of the Russkaya Pravda in the field of guardianship law certainly exerted some influence on the development of the legal institution of guardianship at the time when Russian lands were included into the Lithuanian state. This was reflected in privileges granted to the Lithuanian szlachta (gentry), which reiterated the principles known from the Russkaya Pravda. This, in particular, applies to the privileges that defined the legal position of a widow (privilege of 1447). The same principles also constituted the grounds of verdicts adopted by Grand Duke’s court in cases from the field of guardianship law. With the passage of time, a significant body of experience was gathered, which laid the foundations for the respective provisions of the First Lithuanian Statute. The provisions of the Statute that regulated widows’ guardianship over children (Statute I, VI, 6) show a kinship with the provisions of the Russkaya Pravda and, through it, with the Ecloga and the Procheiron.It seems, therefore, that there was a substantial flow of ideas and readymade legal structures between Byzantine law, based on the principles of the ancient Roman law, and Russian law, whose output was, in its turn, used by the Lithuanian legislature.

Ties That Bind: The Black Family in Post-slavery Jamaica, 1834–1882

Three years ago in a review essay, Trevor Burnard noted that the social history of the Caribbean remained a somewhat underdeveloped field. There is much that we do not yet know about demographic change, social structure, and economic patterns across the Caribbean—the stuff of social history—compared to the historians of other regions. Thankfully, the University of the West Indies Press has been steadily publishing innovative studies that provide the rich empirical data of social history while attending to the cultural and political significance of these findings. One of their recent publications is Jenny M. Jemmott's Ties That Bind: The Black Family in Post-slavery Jamaica, 1834–1882. In this monograph, Jemmott examines the black family in postemancipation Jamaica, arguing that black Jamaicans saw the ability to preserve and sustain their families as one of the crucial rights of freedom.Over the course of six chapters plus an introduction and conclusion, Jemmott examines how freedpeople understood kinship and the ways that they fought to preserve their family arrangements in the face of the stark socioeconomic and legal challenges presented by the postemancipation political landscape. This is not a demographic study, nor is Jemmott especially interested in categorizing or counting family units. Instead, she focuses on black Jamaicans' family values, as expressed in legal proceedings and other encounters with the state. When pressed by Jemmott, the archives are surprisingly revealing, and the sources illustrate the deep attachment and devotion that blacks had for their kin. Throughout she highlights “family advocacy,” the active pursuits by black Jamaicans to preserve the dignity of their families both inside and outside the courtroom (p. 37).The text's structure is straightforward. All but one chapter begin during apprenticeship and trace their theme through the early 1880s. Thus the text starts to feel repetitive. This is unfortunate, because within the circular structure are revelatory arguments and major interventions. The first revelation is implicit: the short apprenticeship period, the transitional phase between slavery and emancipation in the 1830s during which British masters and administrators were supposed to prepare the enslaved and themselves for emancipation, features here as a foundational moment. Between 1834 and 1838, blacks used the increasing freedom of mobility and expanding legal rights to assert their rights as family members: they found and reconnected with relatives from whom they had been separated, and they asserted autonomy over the fates of their children, all in preparation for full freedom. The second revelation comes in chapter 5, which departs from the structure of the other chapters and focuses instead on the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion, a peasant rebellion brutally repressed by the British colonial government. By illuminating the devastating losses of loved ones that black families experienced in the rebellion's aftermath, Jemmott identifies the months after Morant Bay as another moment, like apprenticeship, when blacks rebuilt their families after trauma.Among the important (and connected) interventions made by Ties That Bind is Jemmott's rejection of Eurocentric frameworks that identify Christian marriage and the nuclear family as the primary indicators of a stable family unit. The commitment and devotion to family that blacks demonstrated throughout the period in question matter far more, she suggests, than Europeans' legal or religious approval of these relationships. Coupled with her insistence that Christian marriage and European recognition are fundamentally ill-suited markers for assessing the importance of family is her argument that blacks conceptualized family in ways that harkened back to West African beliefs about kinship and family organization. In this way, Ties That Bind adds to a broadening literature about continuities between African traditions and creole practices. This argument is integral to Jemmott's rejection of European metrics, and much of it is persuasive. Jemmott identifies likely parallels to West African traditions: extended families living together when possible, veneration of the elderly, a collective approach to raising children and political advocacy, and the embrace of fictive kin. Yet at times, the argument feels strained, especially at points when Jemmott has to admit that certain values were not unique to West African traditions. Finally, the book as a whole is a sharp rebuke to the stereotype that black Jamaicans—and especially black men—abandoned or neglected their families during this period. She counters instances of neglect in the archives with her own discoveries of men and women who went to extraordinary legal and personal lengths to assert the existence and primacy of their families. This is an important work that deserves a broad audience. It will be of interest not only to historians of the nineteenth-century Caribbean but to scholars of the family and those interested in the affective dimensions of postemancipation societies.

The Living Conditions of Children with Shared Residence \u2013 the Swedish Example

Among children with separated parents, shared residence – i.e., joint physical custody where the child is sharing his or her time equally between two custodial parents’ homes – is increasing in many Western countries and is particularly common in Sweden. The overall level of living among children in Sweden is high; however, the potential structural differences between children in various post-separation family arrangements have not been sufficiently studied. Potential risks for children with shared residence relate to the daily hassles and stress when having two homes. This study aims at investigating the living conditions of children with shared residence compared with children living with two custodial parents in the same household and those living with one custodial parent, respectively. Swedish national survey data collected from children aged 10–18 years (n ≈ 5000) and their parents were used. The outcomes were grouped into: Economic and material conditions, Social relations with parents and peers, Health and health behaviors, Working conditions and safety in school and in the neighborhood, and Culture and leisure time activities. Results from a series of linear probability models showed that most outcomes were similar for children with shared residence and those living with two custodial parents in the same household, while several outcomes were worse for children living with one parent. However, few differences due to living arrangements were found regarding school conditions. This study highlights the inequalities in the living conditions of Swedish children, with those living with one parent having fewer resources compared with other children.

“Trezentas mil implicações”: possibilidades familiares em uma pesquisa sobre conjugalidade

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2017v14n1p152Este artigo consiste em um recorte de minha pesquisa de Mestrado, na qual investiguei a experiência da conjugalidade homossexual a partir de entrevistas com quatro casais, tendo como referenciais teóricos os estudos queer. No presente texto, parto de recentes contribuições sobre parentesco de Marilyn Strathern (2005/2015), especialmente suas discussões sobre parentalidade e demais relações familiares, para apresentar as narrativas de um dos casais de mulheres entrevistadas e pensar os (des)encontros entre certa ordem familiar instituída e novos arranjos familiares. Dentre as muitas expectativas, planos e dilemas, observamos que, no tocante à geração de filhos, são temidos os questionamentos da família de origem quanto à identificação e inclusão do genitor na rede familiar, à orientação sexual das mães etc. O discurso do casal aponta para uma complexa trama que envolve variadas possibilidades de arranjos parentais e familiares, sexualidades e afetos. Não obstante, o casal de mulheres entrevistadas parece operar sob uma reiteração subversiva: as possibilidades são discutidas e negociadas tendo a família de origem como referência legitimadora, como instituição que se autoriza a indagar seus vínculos, afetos e desejos. Nesse sentido, o casal analisado apropria-se de determinadas referências familiares porque estas dizem respeito às histórias individuais, ao mesmo tempo em que as negociam, reformulam-nas, submetem-nas às reavaliações que fazem em seu projeto de uma vida a dois ‘alternativa’.

Parents' time with a partner in a cross-national context: A comparison of the United States, Spain, and France.

Time shared with a partner is an indicator of marital well-being and couples want to spend time together. However, time with a partner depends on work and family arrangements as well as the policies, norms, and values that prevail in society. Contrary to time spent with children, couples' shared time in cross-national context is relatively unstudied. Previous studies from specific countries show that dual-earner couples spend less time together and that parents spend less time alone together. The aim of our study is to investigate partnered parents' shared time across countries to understand how social conditions, cultural norms, and policy contexts are related to the amount and nature of couples' shared time. Specifically, we compare time with a partner in the US, France, and Spain. We use data from national time use surveys conducted in the US, France, and Spain. We leverage information about with whom activities are done to examine three types of time shared with a partner for parents with children under age 10: total time with a partner indicates the minutes per day spent in the presence of a partner; exclusive time corresponds to the minutes per day spent alone with a partner when no one else is present; and family time indicates the minutes per day spent with a partner and a child at the same time. Our results show that American couples spend the least time together, and Spanish couples spend the most time together. Parents in France spend the most time alone together. The most striking difference across countries is in time with a partner and children, which is much higher among Spanish families. Paid work constraints explain a small part of the differences in couples' shared time that we observe between countries. Differences in couples' shared time across countries seem to be related to social norms surrounding family and general time use.

La crisis de la familia: tensión entre lo convencional y lo emergente

Este artículo propone tres reflexiones en torno al debate sobre la denominada crisis actual de la familia, entendida como el desplazamiento del modelo nuclear biogenético y único referente de familia y relacionada con la dificultad de reconocer la diversidad y multiplicidad de las formas de organización familiar. La primera aborda el reconocimiento de múltiples formas de organización familiar, incluyendo la nuclear. La segunda examina el parentesco como base estructurante de la organización familiar y los cuestionamientos que sobre él surgen a partir de las técnicas de reproducción asistida. Y la tercera se refiere a los cuestionamientos sobre la atribución jurídica del parentesco

DEGRADATION OF PARENTAL BONDING AND VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN: THE USE OF FAMILY GENOGRAM IN THE PEDIATRIC CLINIC.

ABSTRACTObjective: To demonstrate the importance of using the family genogram in pediatric consultation, as an analysis tool to evaluate the degradation of parental bonding and also violence against children.Methods: A qualitative study was conducted in 2011 wherein 63 children, aged between 2 and 6 years, enrolled in a slum nursery, was studied. In order to construct the genogram, data were collected in four stages: pediatric evaluation at nursery; interview with caregivers; interview with teachers; and interview with the nursery coordinator. The data about the families were used to construct the genograms with the aid of GenoPro®-2016 software. In order to evaluate the quality of bonding, the following items were included in the genograms: violence against children, drug addiction, neglect, mental disorder, type of relationship among family members.Results: The evaluated children and their families generated 55 genograms. In 38 of them, functional family arrangements, and close or very close emotional ties were observed. In 17 cases, situations involving physical, emotional, or sexual violence against children were perceived. Among these, four represented extreme cases, with fraying parental bonding, and dysfunctional family arrangements. In these families, chemical addiction was prevalent among multiple members, as well as severe mental disorder, persistent physical and verbal abuse, and sexual abuse.Conclusions: The use of the genogram helps to identify at an early stage the degradation of parental bonding and violence against children, and when it is incorporated into the pediatric practice routine, it may contribute to the promotion of the comprehensive health care of the child, regardless of the presence of social vulnerability.

Segregation and Fertility: The Case of the Roma in Serbia

We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic minority. Using original survey data we collected in Serbia, we investigate whether fertility differs between ethnically homogeneous and mixed neighbor- hoods. Our results show that Roma in less segregated areas tend to have significantly fewer children (around 0.9). Most of the difference arises from Roma in less segregated areas waiting substantially more after having a boy than their counterparts in more segregated areas. We account for the endogeneity of the level of segregation using (il)legal possibility to build in the area at the time of its creation as an instrument. We find that the true gap due to segregation is actually larger than that estimated by OLS (around 1.4). We finally provide evidence that exposure to the Serbian majority culture is the main mechanism at play, as opposed to differences in opportunity cost of time, migration patterns, family arrangements and returns to education.

Representaciones y problematizaciones de la organización familiar en la literatura infantil y juvenil argentina.

El objetivo principal de este artículo es describir, analizar y comparar las configuraciones familiares en la literatura infantil y juvenil argentina luego de la reforma del Código Civil (Ley 26.994), promulgada en 2014, y la sanción de la Ley n.°26.618 de Matrimonio Igualitario, aprobada en 2010. El estudio se enfoca en las familias homoparentales como nuevo contexto jurídico y social. Pretendemos dar cuenta de cómo la industria cultural argentina narra esas historias, analizando los elementos que aparecen y se omiten en los textos.