The extended family and the clan are the most powerful political and social structures in the country.

Cohesion, bonding or warmth during childhood

As a result of those expectations, despite the present environment in which families have been undergoing tremendous and rapid changes, Governments have given increased emphasis to strengthening and empowering families.

Aware that a major objective of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family is to strengthen national institutions in formulating, implementing and monitoring policies in respect of families,

Greater coordination with a view to strengthening the rural family has been established with bodies such as ICBF.

Use the Community of Democracies to strengthen both established and newly formed democratic governments.

Broken homes or large families

The aforementioned proposals promote regulations directed towards the equal treatment of women and men additionally they express increased care for single parent families and large families.

Senegal commemorated the International Day of Families in 2004 around the theme Family and poverty , discussing and addressing ways to decrease poverty among families but also highlighting the challenges that exist when approximately 50 per cent of urban families and nearly 75 per cent of rural families are living in poverty.

PRONAF Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar the National Program for Family Agriculture

The PRONAF is structured as a credit for the family unit and requires the commitment of all of the family members.

It was run by the great and powerful parents, and the people were helpless and hopeless naughty children.

Incorporation of family development, family empowerment, family self reliance and family self management programmes into development plans, and provision of the necessary financial resources for implementation, follow up and evaluation of those programmes

It is in these family aggregates that one mostly finds absolute poverty.

Since it would be virtually impossible to secure the full support of the extended family with regard to remarriage of the widow, she suggested that Gabon should introduce legislation which would enable widows to get the courts to force families to convene a family council.

Support and reinforcement of the families of the people involved

32. Furthermore, the Union of Household Employees in Rio de Janeiro was very emphatic that domestic violence should also include violence against household workers.

One big happy family.

Most rapes in Namibia involve people who know each other, either a family member, personal friend, or someone known to the family.

Nova Scotia has expanded and strengthened programs and services to help low income families.

Rejecting the dominant interventionist paradigm and tendencies as a real threat to the world community

Also similar to rape, the vast majority of domestic violence cases are not reported to the police.

187. Vulnerable groups in respect of housing are large families, young families, and those living in the cities.

How large is your family?

Net income covered all expenses with some difficulty in 40.7 per cent of cases in every fourth household with difficulty (26.2 per cent), in every fifth with great difficulty and in every ninth income was sufficient.

Parliament had adopted measures to strengthen gender equality in the family and to combat domestic violence.

The women had suffered as they had taken up strong family roles in the absence of their husbands.

DAP Declaração de Aptidão ao PRONAF Declaration of Acquirement to PRONAF

Since 2003, family counselling and family activities have been provided by 1,860 community based family development centres located in sub districts throughout the country to strengthen relationships among family members and to prevent domestic violence.

As a founding member of the Community of Democracies, the Republic of Korea strongly supports the idea of establishing and strengthening democratic institutions.

pensioners apos Much below the average Worse

Much above the average

She highlighted, in particular, the adoption of the 1995 Domestic Violence Act.

The proposals contained in the report suggested that the current family programme should concentrate on strengthening international cooperation on family issues.

He has a big family.

I like big families myself.

The various initiatives being undertaken by UNHCR in this area were commended. The importance in building these initiatives also around respect for family unity was stressed.

Support services for families where incest or sexual abuse has occurred. Like most societies discussion of sexual abuse in the family, particularly incest is taboo in Pakistan also.

The Union of Household Employees strongly advocated that crimes committed against domestic workers also be recognized as domestic violence and that special mechanisms to eliminate violence directed against them be established.

We're just one big happy family.

Besides classic family, a community of married spouses with children, which is still a dominant family form, the number of single parents is increasing, as well as extended or reorganized families, and extramarital communities.

pronounce the measure of obligatory family support

43. The families of missing persons should be given stronger support.

Priority has been given to the following topics family reconciliation, rights and obligations of mothers, fathers and children and of the couple, domestic violence, the family and human rights, political and civil rights, protection of children, and study of family composition.

Hear ye, hear ye!