Abstract
The author compares the evolution of the family in Argentina with its evolution in advanced capitalist societies during the processes of modernization and of growing individualization that have taken place since the end of the XIX century. Although the evolution was similar until approximately the seventies, the economic restructuring that started then have generated a fundamental difference between both societies. While in the advanced capitalist societies the crisis of the family is the result of a growing individualization and opulence, which threatens the social reproduction; in Argentina and the rest of the region the crisis of the family institution is mainly the consequence of the social and economic exclusion of a huge part of the population (and families) as a result of the policies of structural adjustment.
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