Over the past five decades, dramatic demographic and socio-economic changes have taken place in East and Southeast Asian countries, with important implications for the family and its future. Still, little is known about the typical configurations of state support for families in these countries. We examine governments’ strategies for supporting families and reducing the cost of children. Employing hierarchical cluster analysis, we uncover four distinctive family policy profiles—maternity support, poverty-relief support, employment-oriented support and encompassing support—and discuss their implication for defamilialisation. What appears less clear are the drivers behind such configurations, but there are indications that fertility concerns, the cultural fabric of a country and the productivist profile of the social policy regime seem to influence the orientation of family policy models. Overall, the development of family policy in East and Southeast Asia seems to be fragmented and characterised by parallel interventions of different types of provenance.

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东亚和东南亚的儿童相关家庭政策：区域内比较

在过去的五年里，东亚和东南亚国家发生了巨大的人口和社会经济变化，对家庭及其未来产生了重要影响。尽管如此，人们对这些国家的家庭支持的典型配置知之甚少。我们研究了政府支持家庭和降低儿童成本的策略。运用层次聚类分析，我们揭示了四种不同的家庭政策概况——生育支持、扶贫支持、就业导向支持和包容性支持——并讨论了它们对去家庭化的影响。似乎不太清楚的是这种配置背后的驱动因素，但有迹象表明生育问题，一个国家的文化结构和社会政策制度的生产主义特征似乎影响着家庭政策模式的方向。总体而言，东亚和东南亚的家庭政策发展似乎是分散的，其特点是不同类型来源的平行干预。