Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of defamilialize
Thus, while part of the caring responsibilities is socially defamilialized, mothers remain the primary caregivers.
2016 September 15, Sophie Mathieu, “From the Defamilialization to the “Demotherization” of Care Work”, in Social Politics, volume 23, number 4, →DOI, page 5822 more examples
Indeed, in places where individual risk is defamilialized, i.e. where the state assumes risks such as health insurance, selection may not be as important as in places where these risks are devolved individuals or their families.
2012, Sean Clouston, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, “The role of defamilialization in the relationship between partnership and self-rated health: A cross-national comparison of Canada and the United States”, in Social Science & Medicine, volume 75, number 8, →DOI, page 1342On the other hand, the fertility impact is unknown in regard to systems where the majority of the economic and caring responsibilities rest on the family (such as in Southern Europe), as opposed to defamilialized systems where welfare and caring responsibilities are largely supported by the state (such as Nordic countries).
2024 April 14, Wikipedia contributors, “Familialism”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation
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