15 May 2008
Luanda — This Wednesday, 15th May 2008, the world commemorates for the fourteenth time the International Day of Families, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, in order to call attention to some issues which have influence on the families' daily life.
In 1994, the UN members, with the topic "Family, capacities and responsibility in a changing world", established the date as international day, considering the family to be the "small democracy in the heart of society".
This initiative served to recognise the role played by the family in society and give an impulse to the adoption of measures in the national and international spheres, so as to improve people's Living standard.
On this day it is promoted the reflection and discussion about the concept of the family in societies worldwide, and also serve to analyse the economic, social and cultural problems which affect families.
One can define family as a group of people who are related to each other by consanguinity, whose nucleus is made by a mother a father and their children.
Therefore, by looking at this simple meaning one can easily conclude that the family assumes the task of protecting and socialising their members, to give response to the needs of the society they belong to.
The family plays a very important role, regarding the emotional support to resolve internal and external conflicts of their members and consequently of society.
Angola as a member of the United Nations and subscriber of the document that proclaimed the date, establishes on its Constitution, the family to be a fundamental nucleus of society that deserves protection from the state.
The Angolan Constitutional Law considers both man and woman to be equal in the bosom of the family, having the same rights and duties.
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