The Concept of Family in the Jurisprudence of the Colombian Constitutional Court and its Impact on Public Policies: A Hermeneutical Code Reading ; El concepto de familia en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional colombiana y su incidencia en las políticas públicas: una lectura en clave hermené...
This text aims to analyze the redesign of the concept of family from the jurisprudence of the Colombian Constitutional Court, since the Political Constitution of 1991, and its impact on the public policies in this matter. The foregoing within a scenario that involves the ethnic and cultural plurality recognized in the constitutional text that has generated challenges for several institutions (including the family) and led to a debate between traditional positions and new visions that aim at conceptual overcoming and practice of those. This new scenario has generated a strong rejection by a part of the population, who, with a conservative stance forged by the hegemony of the Catholic Church and its traditions, resists conceiving the family phenomenon outside rigid structures and interpretations. This led to judges, especially the Constitutional Court, becoming actors in public policies when redesigning the family concept, but this is new because of classical approaches do not usually consider judges as actors, then, it is necessary to address the phenomenon from a neo-institutional approach to public policy. ; Este texto pretende analizar el rediseño del concepto de familia desde la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional, a partir de la Constitución Política de 1991, y su impacto en las políticas públicas en esta materia. Lo anterior en un escenario que supone la pluralidad étnica y cultural reconocida en el texto constitucional que ha generado retos respecto de varias instituciones (entre ellas la familia), así como propiciado un debate entre las posiciones tradicionales y nuevas visiones que pretenden la superación conceptual y práctica de aquellas. Este nuevo escenario generó un fuerte rechazo por parte de la población, que, con una postura conservadora forjada sobre la base de la hegemonía de la Iglesia Católica y sus tradiciones, se resiste a concebir el fenómeno familiar por fuera de estructuras e interpretaciones rígidas. Dicho contexto condujo a que los jueces, en especial la Corte Constitucional, se ...