COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES, SHARED PARENTING AND CARE POLICIES

Abstract

In this article, written in the context of the 2020-2021 pandemic and within the framework of compliance with the Preventive and Compulsory Social Isolation (ASPO), we analyze two community experiences related to the care of children and adolescents that take place in the provinces of Neuquén and Río Negro (Patagonia Argentina). Said analysis is the result of a qualitative research carried out from the perspective of Critical Social Psychology and Public Policies, in which we seek to recover the social knowledge that these community initiatives can contribute to the design and reformulation of public care policies. Specifically, the experiences that we present here are: the GAIA-Nueva Crianza Civil Association, made up of families of trans children and adolescents; and the Civil Association Lazos Azules, made up of families of children and adolescents with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). Although the two associations are very different from each other, they both coincide in being led by families who, after having listened and paid attention to the needs of their children, collectively organized themselves to make the reality of their children visible. a / es and adolescents generating different actions. These actions tend not only to make effective the rights of children and adolescents, especially those linked to identity, education and health, but are aimed at influencing public care policies at the local level from what Boaventura de Sousa Santos calls the sociology of emergencies and from what Rita Segato designates as an amphibious feminine key politicity.