Children of Fate

In modern Latin America profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. Nara B. Milanich argues that the social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. In Children of Fate she explores matters including paternity, illegitimacy, kinship, and child circulation over the course of eighty years of Chile's modern history. Focusing on children, a group rarely represented in Latin American historiography, she shows how family practices and ideologies shaped the lives of individuals and influenced broader social structures.