Meanings
verb
- participlepresentpresent participle of defamilialize
Conversely, a defamilializing regime is one in which policies unburden the household by diminishing individuals’ welfare dependence on kinship.
2016 September 15, Sophie Mathieu, “From the Defamilialization to the “Demotherization” of Care Work”, in Social Politics, volume 23, number 4, →DOI, page 578
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