family (1) | nuclear family (2) | immediate family (3)

family [ family environment | nuclear family ]

Anxiety (normal) about sick person in family Health problems within family Ill or disturbed family member Isolated family

1994 International Year of the Family, Building the Smallest Democracy at the Heart of Society [ Building the Smallest Democracy at the Heart of Society ]

family policy [ family aid policy ]

adoption of a child [ adopted descendant | adopted family ]

Medical or nursing care or supervision of healthy infant under circumstances such as:adverse socioeconomic conditions at home | awaiting foster or adoptive placement | maternal illness | number of children at home preventing or interfering with normal care

Family discord NOS High expressed emotional level within family Inadequate or distorted communication within family

extended family

Observes that agricultural investment policies mostly focus on large-scale land acquisitions and on export-oriented agriculture that is usually unrelated to local economies; notes that the development of extensive irrigation in the targeted geographical investment areas of NAFSN may reduce water availability for other users, such as small-scale farmers or pastoralists; stresses that under those circumstances the ability of mega-PPPs to contribute to poverty reduction and food security must be critically assessed and improved; emphasises that agricultural investment policies should be linked to and should support the development of the local economy, including smallholders and family farming; recalls that the FAO Tenure Guidelines recomm ...[+++]end secure access to land in order to allow families to produce food for household consumption and to increase household income; stresses the need to base large-scale land-based investment in Africa on these guidelines, ensuring smallholders’ and local communities’ access to land, promoting local SME investment. and ensuring that PPPs contribute to food security and to reducing poverty and inequality.

The Council conclusions of 20 May 2011 on early childhood education and care (ECEC) , which recognised that high quality early childhood education and care complements the central role of the family and lays the essential foundations for language acquisition, successful lifelong learning, social integration, personal development and employability, whilst fostering the acquisition of both cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

supporting parents in their role as the main educators of their children during the early years, and encouraging ECEC services to work in close partnership with parents, families and communities, in order to increase awareness of the opportunities offered by ECEC and of the importance of learning from an early age;

supporting parents in their role as the main educators of their children during the early years, and encouraging ECEC services to work in close partnership with parents, families and communities, in order to increase awareness of the opportunities offered by ECEC and of the importance of learning from an early age.