Caregiving, Employment and Income in Single-Parent Households in Argentina. An Analysis of Their Living Conditions

Abstract

In the context of the process of pauperisation of the labour force, changes in family structures -associated with the fall in the fertility rate, together with the increase in divorce and cohabitation rates- and the increase in female labour force participation observed since the last decades of the twentieth century, this paper studies single-parent households in Argentina at the present time. From a quantitative approach, it seeks to account for the characteristics under which inequalities are reproduced among the heads of these households in relation to mothers who are heads of nuclear households and households without children, which affect both these women and the children under their care. At the same time, it discusses the main problems that afflict them in order to propose a set of demands that could be incorporated into the country's public and common agendas