(b) Observance of the International Day of Families (15 May).

In a few countries, a national family day was designated, and in one country a family week was declared.

Commemoration of International Day of Families, 14 May 1998

States Parties shall take in all fields, in particular in the political, social, economic and cultural fields, all appropriate measures, including legislation, to ensure the full development and advancement of women, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms on a basis of equality with men.

Great numbers of individuals and families are thus served on a daily basis.

Organization of family holidays for the unemployed

6 7 November Fifth International Seminar Focus on Families Action and issues beyond IYF

(a) To give appropriate consideration to the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family by preparing for the observance of the International Day of Families on 15 May 2004 and by taking appropriate steps for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family

This is all the contents of a Japanese home.

The processes contributing to the demise of the traditional extended family and the trend towards small, nuclear families continue.

The Japanese attach a lot of importance to their family relationship.

Number of households

51. For debate As families age, family care needs to be increasingly provided by a network of family members and to be supported by organized formal care.

This figure is increasing by the day, with consequent adverse effects on Cuban 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.

I come from a conventional, middle class Nigerian family.

1. Family Code Act No. 3 of 17 May 1994.

Broken homes or large families

Home cooking remained the norm, but its quality was down the tubes.

28 November 2 December World NGO Forum on the Family, Malta

2.10 Pending the appeal, the author applied, on 7 May 1992, to the Family Court for a stay of the orders of 9 March 1992.

The remaining households examined were farmers apos households (7.9 per cent), farmworkers apos households (6.5 per cent), households of self employed or professional persons (4.7 per cent) and households maintained on unearned income, other than pensions (3.5 per cent).

Regulations on the Day Care of Children in Private Houses, No. 198 of 1992

THE FAMILY Letter dated 14 April 1998 from the Permanent Representative

The observance of the International Day of Families on 15 May provided the impetus for a number of activities.

Weakening and deterioration of family relations as a result of the narrowing of opportunities for daily interaction among family members, with the appearance of symbolic and material forms of violence between them and the growing phenomenon of divorce, with its inevitable impacts on generations within the family and children in particular

On 22 December 1997, the court appointed medical expert informed the court that the author had not appeared when summoned for the examination.

The Family Support for Children with Disabilities Act came into effect August 1, 2004.

The aforementioned proposals promote full implementation of the equal treatment of women and men and express an increased care for single parent and large families.

Domestic service in private homes

2.9 On 7 April 1992, the author filed a notice of appeal to the Full Court of the Family Court against the orders of 9 March 1992, which related to the property, access and custody issues.

315. In 1991, the people apos s canteens in metropolitan Lima prepared and distributed 570 thousand daily rations (CARE, canteen census, 1991) and served 8.5 per cent of all families and 13 per cent of all poor families (Ministry of Labour, Household Survey for Metropolitan Lima, 1992).

30 November 1 December Fourth International Seminar Family and Environment A Partnership

37. The Board also observed that although the ICSC secretariat was facing a serious problem of low response in household expenditure surveys, it did not have an alternate strategy to determine common expenditure weights independently with reasonable accuracy.

No. of families entitled to family allowances

More women have taken part in credit programmes for poor households.

Taking note of the Plan of Action on the Family in Africa launched by the African Union at its extraordinary summit meeting on the family in Africa, held in Cotonou, Benin, from 25 to 27 July 2004, as Africa's contribution to the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family,

Female headship of households is more apparent for those outside marital union separated 65 per cent divorced 72 per cent and widowed 81 per cent.

There are 1.4 billion different ways that a family can find itself.

The double income family was the standard.

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.

Households with unemployed members and without any working members made up 4.9 per cent of the households examined.

The Law On Social Assistance, which became effective as of 28 November 1995, provides for the following state social benefits to families the childcare allowance, the childbirth benefit, the family state benefit.

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

order the person to return the objects necessary to satisfy the every day needs of the family