The section concludes by presenting examples of specific policies aimed at changing initial socioeconomic and gender inequality. Specifically, they enable individuals to alternate time spent at work with time spent on caregiving within the family (Duran, 2004), transfer family care to services partly provided by the State, or regulate the purchase of private care by families. These types of State intervention are sequential, “defamilializing” (Martinez Franzoni, 2008; Orloff, 2009) and regulatory, respectively,4 and often addressing work-family tensions is not in fact their primary purpose; this is the case with preschool childcare services, for example.