Quechua family life itself is interesting to observe up close. The sexual division of labour is fairly rigid. Women wash, sew, take primary care of the kids, and prepare the food - which they eat separately from the men. Unless they attend college, children tend to be married off young. Blanca, Olmedo's daughter, was wed at sixteen, a year later than her mother.
Families tend to be large, but members of the present generation seem determined to cut back.
Both Oswaldo and Fausto, Blanca's husband, emphasize that they plan to stop at two kids. Family relations are strong, if the Cerda clan is anything to go by. The children are buoyant but well-behaved. Interaction between men and women seems relaxed, mutually respectful, and friendly. Fausto circulates, nodding approvingly at our pathetically amateurish efforts.