discuss the reason for the variation of family pattern world wide
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The family is the core institution for child-rearing worldwide, and decades of research have shown that strong families promote positive child outcomes,” said Laura Lippman, co-director of the World Family Map and senior program director for education at Child Trends.
In order to develop effective policies and programs aimed at supporting healthy child development, it is critical to track the major changes occurring in families around the world, and how they are affecting child and youth outcomes.
The World Family Map project monitors global changes in the areas of family structure, socioeconomic, processes, and culture, focusing on 16 specific indicators, updated annually.
This year’s indicators and analysis suggest key opportunities to improve family and thus child well-being globally. These strategies include fostering union stability–assuming parents have low conflict relationships– extended family support, addressing poverty among families with children, and encouraging parent-child communication, among others.
Families do not operate in a vacuum. Their ability to provide for their children and supervise their development depends not only on parenting behaviors and family structure but also on the broader social, economic, and policy environments that surround them,” said Bradford Wilcox, co-director of the World Family Map and associate professor of Sociology, University of Virginia.