The need to foster family as an institution

This study advocates the need to institutionalize family policies focused on promoting a family culture to achieve the replacement birth rate. In addition, the current trends reveal that the future family models require the women integration in the working world and therefore family policies should focus on supporting a model that includes working women.

Lasting couple relationships: Recent research findings

This study reviews recent research findings into couples in long-term relationships (married and de facto) that provide insight into the couple relationship over time. It addresses aspects of couple relationships such as commitment, personality traits, transitioning to parenthood, health, and relationship satisfaction. The aim of this paper is to inform practitioners and other professionals working with couples in an educative or therapeutic context.

The state of grandfamilies in America: 2014

This report shines a light on the challenges grandfamilies face and the incredible service they provide our country. It includes an infographic that shows 7.8 million children live in grandfamilies, where grandparents or other relatives are the householders. Nearly one-third of children in all grandfamilies do not have their parents living with them in the home. About 2.7 million grandparents are responsible for most of the basic needs of grandchildren living with them.

Estadísticas del Movimiento Natural de la Población

Según los datos provisionales que se publican ahora, el número de nacimientos en el primer semestre de 2014 se incrementó un 1,0% y el de defunciones creció un 3,5% respecto del mismo periodo del año anterior, mientras que el número de matrimonios subió un 0,5% en la primera mitad de 2014 respecto al mismo periodo de 2013.

Measuring Violence against Children – Inventory and assessment of quantitative studies

The latest report of the Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group was prepared by the Data and Analytics Section of UNICEF on behalf of the CP MERG Technical Working Group on Violence against Children. The Group was tasked with developing tools that can guide and support the collection of reliable and useful data on violence against children in an ethically sensitive manner.