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Family policies in Portugal: brief overview and recent developments
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Since 2010 there have been major changes in family policies in Portugal.
The economic crisis led to a retrenchment in benefits for families
and policy objectives moved away from an explicit pro-family and proegalitarian
perspective during the first decade of the 21st century toward
a more implicit and residual policy perspective. The new focus of family
policies has underlined support for very poor families, the strengthening
of selectivity mechanisms and a move away from state responsibility for
families in general, by encouraging the non-governmental sector and families
themselves to act as the “front-line” of support for persons “in
need” (Wall et al. 2014). At the level of the governmental framework, family
policy during the last three years has therefore been in the shadow
of social policy. There has also been strong delegation of state responsibility
for disadvantaged families to third sector institutions (mostly private
publicly-subsidized NGOs) and to regional and municipal authorities.
At present there is no specific governmental body with responsibility
for overseeing family policies and their impact.
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Families Public policies
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Wall, K. (2016). Family policies in Portugal: brief overview and recent developments. In: Cunha, V., Vilar, D., Wall, K., Lavinha, J., Pereira, P. T. (Orgs), A(s) problemática(s) da natalidade em Portugal: uma questão social, económica e política, pp. 191-201 . Lisboa: ICS. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais