Fatherhood is a key but missing component of research on welfare regimes. What do states formally demand from fatherhood across Latin America? Using a novel data set of coded legal and policy provisions for 19 Latin American countries, this article offers a conceptual framework to examine state interventions targeting biological, caregiving and breadwinning dimensions of fatherhood. My findings show that, regardless of how robust their social policies are, most countries presume fatherhood to be complementary rather than co-responsible to motherhood. By making a conceptual, empirical and practical contribution to studying the state regulation of fatherhood, this article contributes to a more comprehensive view of welfare regimes.

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了解拉丁美洲国家对父亲的监管：互补与共同责任

父亲身份是福利制度研究的一个关键但缺失的组成部分。拉丁美洲各州对父亲身份的正式要求是什么？本文使用 19 个拉丁美洲国家的编码法律和政策规定的新数据集，提供了一个概念框架来检查针对父亲的生物学、照顾和养家糊口方面的国家干预措施。我的研究结果表明，无论他们的社会政策多么健全，大多数国家都认为父亲是对母亲的补充，而不是对母亲的共同责任。通过对研究国家对父亲的监管做出概念性、经验性和实践性的贡献，本文有助于更全面地了解福利制度。