Prendre soin des biens et des liens : étude des pratiques de tutelle au sein des familles
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ce mémoire s’intéresse à l’expérience des enfants adultes qui deviennent tuteurs aux biens pour un parent devenu inapte au Québec. À partir d’entretiens semi-dirigés menés auprès de tuteurs familiaux, il révèle la complexité d’un rôle souvent perçu comme purement administratif, mais qui mobilise en réalité un travail soutenu, à la fois moral, relationnel et émotionnel. Les résultats montrent que la tutelle agit comme un révélateur des dynamiques familiales et des inégalités de genre : ce sont majoritairement les femmes qui assument la gestion du patrimoine parental, souvent par continuité du rôle d’aidante ou par défaut, lorsqu’aucun autre membre de la famille ne se propose. Ces tuteurs doivent composer avec des tensions entre leurs obligations légales, les attentes des frères et sœurs et la volonté de préserver l’harmonie familiale. Ils développent ainsi des stratégies d’ajustement transparence, neutralité, effacement, justification, pour maintenir la confiance et éviter les conflits. Cette recherche met en lumière une forme de travail invisible où s’entremêlent responsabilité juridique, charge émotionnelle et devoir moral. En mobilisant les cadres du care, des solidarités intergénérationnelles et du travail émotionnel, elle montre que la tutelle aux biens n’est pas seulement une fonction légale, mais un espace de négociation sociale et affective, révélateur des normes genrées qui structurent les relations familiales et les pratiques de protection des aînés. This thesis explores the experiences of adult children who become legal guardians of their parents’ property after the onset of incapacity in Québec. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with family guardians, it reveals the complexity of a role often perceived as purely administrative, but which in practice requires sustained moral, relational, and emotional work.The findings show that guardianship acts as a lens through which family dynamics and gender inequalities become visible. Daughters are most often the ones who assume the management of their parents’ assets, frequently as an extension of their caregiving role, or by default when no other family member steps forward. These guardians navigate constant tensions between legal obligations, siblings’ expectations, and the desire to maintain family harmony. To do so, they develop subtle strategies of adjustment, such as transparency, neutrality, self-effacement, and justification, to preserve trust and avoid conflict.This research highlights a form of invisible labor where legal responsibility, emotional burden, and moral duty intertwine.By mobilizing the theoretical frameworks of care, intergenerational solidarity, and emotional labor, it demonstrates that property guardianship is not merely a legal function but also a social and affective negotiation space, one that exposes the gendered norms shaping family relations and the protection of older adults.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".