The Family as a Service Provider: Social Changes and Challenges
When a situation of social vulnerability is detected, community services should inform the public body and report the situation to the prosecutor through the judge or by informing the police. Measures may include temporary or permanent removal from the family environment.
The welfare system has a network of centers specializing in child protection, including protection centers for homeless persons, children’s homes, and shelters. The most appropriate residential option should be chosen for the child in distress.
Special attention should be given to children who have violated the law. They require a special program of rehabilitation and social integration in residential or semi-closed settings, as determined by the judicial decision.
ITEM 4 SSSS FOR THE FAMILY
1 .- SOCIAL CHANGES AFFECTING THE FAMILY
Since the 80s, in most European organizations, national states and regions of Europe there is increasing legislative and regulatory activity in relation to the family. / / First, because people give a high evaluation to the family in general and their own families in particular. The powers pUBLIC focuses, therefore, support their efforts in settled lawsuits between citizens. / / Secondly, by the intense social changes that occur in all European countries since the second half of the s. XX. The changes have affected all aspects of family life as the rapidly falling birth rates that has put countries like Spain and Italy at the lower rate and if sustained, the population of Europe is aimed at a gradual reduction. The growing aging population in Europe, as a result of declining birth rates and prolongation of life expectancy. Changes in family structure and dynamics affect the SSSS. The increased divorce rate of fertility among adolescent women in de facto unions, the delay in the age of emancipation family of children, etc.. incorporation into the extra-domestic work and its continuity in the workplace for all working age by a high percentage of women. The turnaround in migration. Another important changelast third of the s. XX is the emergence of pluralism. / / The family changes become outdated much of the implicit assumptions of the welfare state. The presumption of a job and a unique family and lasting peace in the course of life, is becoming an increasingly vital experience widespread. / / You can not take for granted the existence of a stable nuclear family model with two or three kids, able to act alone as a clearinghouse and solidarity between the sexes and between generations, between strong and weak subjects.
2 .- THE FAMILY as a service provider family is a group that always plays important activities to serve its members. The care and upbringing of children, care in situations of illness, the care of elderly, bearing the consequences of any order in cases of drugs and diseases like AIDS, protection po ATo, prolonged dependence of children by the longer duration of studies and the delay in empowering domestic trade in financial assistance and provision of care between the family network, in these and many other situations is performed by a complex family network, but effective , provision of services. These services provide their own public network (hospitals, employment services) are a basic element of social organization. Other forms of self-help and support within the family network, which has a high incidence in Spain is the intergenerational cooperation. The generation of parents very often help their children and vice versa. / /
2.1 .- The woman and her central role in the provision of services by the family. / / Entire network of services that historically has provided the family has been almost exclusively by women. In past and present have been those who have been responsible for the performance of these basic services for the family and society. An investigation into the use of time by the Community of Madrid, offers all women spend a portion of their time conducting ne chores and activities connected to the demands of the family, on average, adult women spent on these time activities 5 times higher than used by men of the same age. / / The woman usually also serves the needs of couples, working or not, or shorten the tasks or reducing the number of those made. The women’s domestic work involves a restriction of free time. This means that women are obliged to take into account the rigidity of domestic time, which can not be compressed if it is within certain limits, unless the contracts are spread fixed or part-time is considerably reduced working hours.
2.2 .- The erosion of the role of the family as a provider of services.
All writers believe that the family is one of the main sources of employment and more and more often people outside the family are those serving s in child custody, care in illness, care of elderly. Sometimes the elderly are those who take care of relatives.
These trends credited the difficulties facing today’s family to continue to play one role that has historically been exercising: a provider of services, care and attention to their members.
The approval of Law 39/99 of 5 November, to promote reconciliation of work and family life, is an important tool to reconcile (women and men) their dual work and family role.