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Spain's Quiet Expropriation of the Home: The Investment Welfare State

The ideological shift from a Protective Welfare State (PWS) to an Investment Welfare State (IWS) in Spain. Key points: New comprehensive care and child protection laws redefine the state-family relationship. The IWS model prioritizes human capital optimization (pre-distribution) over passive social protection (redistribution). This shift transforms the home into a measurable, auditable economic sector controlled by the state. Informal domestic care is formalized and socialized into a taxable care economy. Bureaucratic tools like care logs and auditors are introduced to measure compliance and return on investment. Broad legal definitions of violence and best interests of the minor are used to override parental sovereignty. The system structurally favors service benefits over cash transfers, nationalizing the definition of good parenting and eroding family autonomy. Summarizes the legislative and ideological shift in Spain's social policy, moving from a Protective Welfare State (PWS) to an Investment Welfare State (IWS), which fundamentally redefines the relationship between the family and the state. The main claim is that Spain's new comprehensive care and child protection laws, while framed as support for families and women, constitute a quiet, bureaucratic expropriation of the home, transforming private domestic life into a measurable, auditable, and state-controlled economic sector. The logic is that the IWS model prioritizes economic growth and human capital optimization (pre-distribution) over passive protection (ex post redistribution). This requires the state to formalize and socialize the domestic burden, turning informal care into a measurable economic activity. This formalization necessitates bureaucratic tools like the care log and care auditor to ensure compliance and measure the return on state investment. Furthermore, the state uses broad legislative definitions of violence and best interests of the minor to assert its authority over moral and educational content, overriding parental sovereignty. The system, exemplified by the System for Autonomy and Care for Dependency (SAAD), structurally favors service benefits over cash transfers to build a new, taxable care economy, even though it still relies heavily on unpaid informal care. The result is a system of conditional, audited support that erodes family autonomy and nationalizes the definition of a good parent.