The House, the Street, Global Society: Latin American Families and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century

摘要: Globalization has produced a common vision of the experience childhood, kind global "morality." However, this "global notion" fails to coincide with childhood in Latin America. In America family and kinship have served as critical institutions for social stability. Perhaps starkest example impact globalization on children is growing number so-called street children. While nuclear widely seen ideal, it not prevalent. American families which are often extended matrifocal appear media or popular literature being "deviant" "in crisis." Neoliberal reforms restrict programs that support education, welfare, housing, medical care. Nevertheless, still utilize relations creative adaptive ways. Structures dependence reciprocity sustain wake economic crisis, marital strife, parental death disappearance. Parents also depend upon The majority "street children" working bring resources their families. limited ability participate formal society economy; what done destroy family.