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...school, and women's roles were largely limited to the family. Though he says his daughters share his traditional values, all five of them work. Sánchez, who has 14 grandchildren, argues that working women miss out on "the best years of their child's life," and that Spanish mothers should be paid to stay home...
...with his sons every other weekend; what to tell his own mother when she insists it's time he got remarried; how to explain to his childless partner that, for him, two kids are enough. What makes this 40-year-old different from millions of other hard-working Spanish fathers is that his partner is a man. One issue, at least, appears to be resolved: Carrasco says he and Javier Dorca, his boyfriend of eight years, plan to tie the knot next year under Spain's landmark 2005 gay-marriage legislation. "Javier has always wanted to get married," says...
...marriage and adoption rights are only the most recent and controversial changes in a nation that has undergone an epochal shift since sloughing off the stifling certainties of dictatorship a mere generation ago. Under Francisco Franco's Catholic-inspired, military-enforced rule, which lasted until 1975, the Spanish family was the iconic, idealized centerpiece of society. That homogeneous model is now being supplanted by a mosaic of family types. Spanish families are ever more urban and transient, and ever less grounded in faith and marriage. In 1975, 10,895 Spanish children were born out of wedlock...
...effects of this new and evolving family structure are reshaping Spain's economic and social future. In the March 9 elections, Spanish voters will decide whether to give a second term to Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the unlikely revolutionary whose four-year overhaul of social legislation has made Spain a paragon of progressive family law. Popular Party challenger Mariano Rajoy has attempted to tap into what he sees as an underlying distrust of those rapid changes, but even he shies away from addressing them directly because he is aware that his allies in the Catholic...
Both parties recognize that the Spanish family isn't easily harnessed to campaign rhetoric. Like architect Antoni Gaudí's signature Barcelona cathedral, the Sagrada Família - where the spires share space with cranes and scaffolding in a never-ending bid to complete the original 1883 design - the Spanish family is both sacred and a confounding work in progress...