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Caregiving in transition in Southern Europe
— neither complete altruists nor free-riders | | Author(s) | Simonetta Simoni, Rossana Trifiletti |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Administration, vol 38, no 6, December 2004 |
| Pages | pp 678-705 |
| Source | http://www.blackwell-synergy.com |
| Keywords | The Family ; Family care ; Children ; Social welfare ; Comparison ; France ; Italy ; Portugal. |
| Annotation | Using the SOCCARE Project as a framework, and focusing on multi-generation families with a double burden of care for children and frail older people, similarities can be found in Italy, France and Portugal beyond their different welfare regimes. By use of a case-matching methodology, comparison of family histories and caregiving strategies gives an interesting overview of the relationship between the debate on social care and that on the intergenerational contract. This paper aims to understand what available combinations of family, informal and institutional resources make a heavy burden of care "acceptable and still normal". The focus is both on each country's typical situations and on common features between the countries. The results show how changes in the representations of obligation and duty in the intergenerational pact produce different outcomes and demands in welfare systems. The analysis of shifting boundaries between public and private spheres in care provides useful policy recommendations, aimed at improving choices and sustainable responsibilities of individuals, families and social networks. Sustainable policies seem to be more dependent on family and structural types and resources of networks than on different welfare and services support. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041202209 A |
| Classmark | SJ: P6:SJ: SBC: TY: 48: 765: 76V: 76T |
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