27 de maig del 2016

12 May 2016, The Celebration of the International Day of Families at UN Headquarters: “Families, healthy lives and sustainable future”


UN Headquarters, Focal Point on the Family (DSDP/DESA) has celebrated the International Day of Families. A panel hold by international experts has discussed how to accomplish well-being for all ages. There is no doubt that families remain at the centre of social life ensuring the well-being of their members, educating and socializing children and youth and caring for young and old.  (Quote: Background Note from Focal Point on the Family).

Dominic Richardson, Senior Education Specialist from Innocenti Office of Research, UNICEF, has been the moderator and has done introductory remarks, pointing his high level of knowledge of family indicators.

Daryl Higgins, deputy director at the Autralian Institute of Family Studies, Zitha Mokomane, professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria(South Africa), Scott Behson, professor of management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rosario Esteinou, sociologist has been visitor professor at the center of Family Research at the University of Cambridge,  and Wendy Wang, senior researcher at Pew Research Center,  had done the presentations, all of them trying to delve into children well-being, in work and family balance, in involving fatherhood at the workplaces and home, in parents and youth, and intergenerational relations inside the families.

After the presentations there was a roundtable discussion with all the audience, more than 100 persons filled up the conference room.


 


                                          The panelists

                                          Dominic Richardson and Irma Rognoni

                                          Ignacio Socias and Irma Rognoni

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