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Since 2013, the #IFFDAwards have been presented every year during the Commission for Social Development to national, regional or local governments recognized for the promotion of family [...]

Representatives from diverse sectors are highlighting potential solutions that may evolve into public policies in the upcoming years. This initiative is led by the Secretariat of Family and Youth [...]

To this generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story? [Rachel M. Cohen – Vox, 4 December 2023.] READ MORE

The researchers further find that the emphasis on work-life balance disappears at the managerial level.  [Neil Franklin – Workplace Insight, 4 December 2023.] READ MORE

The answer to this question is both simple and complex – and the fulfilment you feel in your life, whether you decide to have kids or not, depends on many complex factors. [Trudy Meehan and [...]

These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work. [Anna North – Vox, 27 November 2023.] READ MORE

Work/life integration has flexibility at its heart because it recognizes no formula for how employees balance life and work. [Scott Cawood – Forbes, 27 November 2023.] READ MORE

Balancing work and family life may become easier for growing families in South Africa after a ground-breaking parental leave judgment in the High Court declared certain provisions of the Basic [...]

Between 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU’s population decreased by 265 257 people, due to natural population changes (more deaths than births), as net [...]

The issue only gained short-lived public attention as Public Health Minister declared increasing the fertility rate to be on the national agenda and drew criticism for blaming the decision of [...]