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Article: Development and the family.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- May 1, 1985
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Development and the family
Drawing on the findings of United Nations studies and the recommendations of the Interregional Seminar on Changing Families: Relevant Social Welfare Strategies, held in Moscow in October 1984, the report examines the impact of modernization, industrialization and urbanization on the structure and functioning of the family. National policies, it concludes, must give greater attention to bringing about changes in families' environments to provide better living conditions and prevent behaviours inimical to familial well-being.
"Especially in developing countries," the report stresses, "policies and programmes explicitly for ...