Los cuidados en infancia: Regímenes y arreglos familiares en Chile y Uruguay

Abstract

The article analyses the organization of care for children under 6 years in Chile and Uruguay. It characterizes and compares the social care models in childhood and studying family arrangements developed by households to deal care tasks. The results come from a research that follows an international comparative case study about welfare regime in care, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Survey techniques used secondary sources and statistical data for 2013 and in depth interviews to learn about the social practices of care. The results show that in socio-economic equity, residual and co-modified types persist in two countries, determining access based on household income. Besides the type of gender equity is related to the participation of parents in the labor market. And finally in the two analyzed cases show a tension between familialism and desfamilialism both at the macro and micro-social level.