2017-01-132014-08-272017-01-132014-08-27https://ri.ucsal.br/handle/123456730/225Inserted in the searchline "Legal Aspectsof the family", this work is about the meaning of the word “families” for the Brazilian Social Security and its counterpart institution in France. By means of literature review, document and field research, with qualitative approach using a semi-structured questionnaire, applied to a group of two hundred people – among Brazilian and French adults, workers or not, randomly chosen, the author researches the Welfare State, its origins and main models; business intelligence and the Political Economy of Social Protection. Next he formulates the following thesis: since Social Security is a contributing system, its insured can freely choose their dependents based on affection. The thesis is anchored to the principles of full social protection, non-discrimination and dignity of families. From this last principle, the student extracts, in contrast to the financial and actuarial balance of Social Security, the principle of financial stability of families and the index of welfare development of the family. He concludes his reasoning with theoretical arguments that are able to propose measures to fight the "pension industry", develop the concept of social intelligence and sustain the classification "social insurance families" as the prognostic of an emerging paradigm of family groups based on affective bonds.Acesso AbertoFamíliaDireitoPrevidência socialFamilyLawSocial securityTeseSociais e HumanidadesMultidisciplinar