Family Inc.: Guilt, Compliance, and the Corporate Reality of the Latin Home

What if the family isn’t a sanctuary, but a system?For generations, Latin families have gone unquestioned, protected under the mantle of tradition and sacredness. But beneath that sentimental framework lies a truth rarely scrutinized: a structure with hierarchies, labor, and invisible contracts.Family Inc. introduces a radical new lens for understanding the home—not as a sacred institution, but as an organization.Through this systems-based approach, family dynamics suddenly become impossible to ignore. Children are assigned roles long before they’re old enough to understand them. Some become caretakers. Others become managers, mediators, or even parents to their own siblings and parents.The book also exposes one of the most powerful forces operating inside the home, guilt.Food, shelter, clothing, and education are often framed as extraordinary sacrifices that children must spend a lifetime repaying. But what if these aren’t gifts at all?From religious guilt and social currency to domestic labor and lifelong debt, Family Inc. dismantles the hidden mechanisms that transform obligation into love and compliance into virtue. Read more