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Speech by Ignacio Socias on ‘Parenting education: The challenge of work and family integration to achieve family wellbeing’ at the side Event ‘Towards full and productive employment and decent [...]

The annual Membership Meeting of the Non-Governmental Committee on UNICEF took place on Thursday, February 2nd, at the UNICEF House in New York. The meeting is an opportunity to increase [...]

There are many obstacles to enabling more fathers to share childcare at least equally with their partners, and to ease the challenges for families. [Paul Hodkinson and Rachel Brooks – The [...]

With recent reports highlighting growing employee desire for balance, this article explores whether downtime could be worth its weight in gold for businesses that can’t increase salaries. [...]

Is marriage merely a private institution, only between two people and therefore nobody else’s business? Or is marriage actually a very public institution in which it serves a much larger public [...]

Family leave policies, though limited in scope and typically unpaid in the U.S., have hamstrung the progress toward gender wage parity since the 1990s, according to an economic paper. [Catarina [...]

For some time it’s been clear to us that when you’ve got an ageing population, the absolute best thing you can get is a higher fertility rate. [ABC News, 2 January 2023.] READ MORE

Only 20 years ago, Belgium parents were eligible for just 10 days of paternity leave. Despite this increase, the Family League (La Ligue des Familles) says that this is not enough. [The Brussels [...]

Optimism is a critical skill for happiness, health, and success, traits that most parents desire for their children. But, as parents, how do we lay the foundation for an optimistic outlook for [...]

The fear of having their families torn apart is now a common and legitimate concern among Syrian refugees — and it exists despite the fact that this practice risks breaching Denmark’s obligations [...]