Las familias monoparentales en España

Abstract

The progressive increase of new forms of family as the modern lone parent families makes the question about the legitimacy of the traditional model of Welfare State whose turning point was the stability of the nuclear asimetric family. According to this, the aim of this work is to present the existing relations between lone parent families and Welfare State in Spain. Works made on the lone parent families have demonstrated the almost inexistence of specific family policies focused on this kind of families (referred to services and social atention). This fact makes difficult the integration of the lone mothers in the labour market due to the difficulties they find to make compatible the familiar work and the professional one. This makes even bigger the economic precarious situation and the impoverishment of this kind of families.