Critique internationale
Presses de Sc. Po.

I.S.B.N.2-7246-3055-8
224 pages

p. 95 à 117
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no 31 2006/2

La politique familiale allemande : les limites de l'action de l'État

Anne Salles
Germany has been undergoing a serious demographic crisis for the past 30 years, but the state continues to have trouble embarking on an active family policy. A particular challenge is that it must distinguish itself both from the national socialist past as well as the GDR’s interventionist policy, while taking into account a German cultural specificity: the ongoing preponderance of the mother’s role in the upbringing of her children. These historical and cultural factors to a large extent determine the limits that the state imposes on its own action. They also explain the very rationale behind current family policy: to let individuals take the fore and respect their choices. Thus the state strives to remain neutral by privileging the subsidiarity principle and financial transfers to the detriment of measures designed to reconcile work and family. Such a course, however, ends up influencing individuals’ choices. In fact, the objective of neutrality turns out to be impossible to achieve and contributes indirectly to being a disadvantage for families.
• Le poids de l'Histoire
• La mère indigne
• Sur quelques principes de la politique familiale
— La subsidiarité
— La neutralité
— Concilier travail et famille
• Les conséquences d’une politique familiale restreinte
• Une volonté de changement ?


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