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CESPEDES, Roberto L.. Changes within families of Paraguay, 2002/2022. Poblac.Desarro. [online]. 2024, vol.30, n.59, pp.42-56. ISSN 2076-0531.  https://doi.org/10.18004/pdfce/2076-054x/2024.030.59.042.

In Paraguay (2002-2022), families undergone changes due to modernization and modernity processes that are studied based upon woman´s progress as main explanatory axis, and taking also in account her economic, political, and physical autonomies. Diversity of types of households, consensual unions growth, and feminine household headship, growth and its base are studied. INE´s census 2002 and 2012 and 2022 surveys data are compared (%). A general trend towards modernity is underway but it is not uniform within these three areas, and an acceleration pace during the last ten years is a parallel process. Within types of households, the one-parent and children household increase and the extended household decrease are noted. Consensual unions exploded during the last decade does not necessarily mean modernity; it is a late process in the region. By 2022, an equilibrium has arrived between formal and informal (consensual) unions. A growing feminine headship is a modernity sign, it has reached almost 4 out of every 10 households in 2022 and it has grown almost 2,5 times within 20 years, included two-parents and children family, ”the” model. For reaching this political level, wo- men should be within the labor market, and they do according to their civil-conjugal state; for instance, separated and divorced women are on the peak at both variables. Within the public agenda, more studies on families are required as well as to include families´ diversity and their ongoing changes for more precise public policies.

Palabras clave : families; woman; censuses; surveys; Paraguay.

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