Tag: family

Suicides don’t take place in a vacuum. They take place in a society. Suicide cannot be blamed on an individual, no matter how much our society loves to do it but it can be blamed on a social context — the caste system, for one.

A Pew Research Centre survey finds that nearly all U.S. pet owners (97%) consider their pets to be part of their family, with half (51%) considering them as much a part of the family as a human member. Women, individuals with lower family incomes, and urban residents are more likely to view their pets in this way. Dog ownership is slightly more prevalent than cat ownership, with 49% of pet owners having dogs only. Pet owners are divided on the emphasis placed on pets' well-being in society.

More than half of the children trafficked for forced labour, domestic work, and sex work are recruited by friends or family members, according to a new analysis.

Two out of five families in Ukraine are in extreme need of livelihoods and basic items with the country now experiencing unprecedented...

“Cost of- living crisis” is ranked as the most severe global risk over the next two years, while Climate action failure dominates...

As the world changes, achieving universal access to family planning takes on new urgency. With this urgency in mind, the UNFPA has...

Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected vulnerable segments of the population, including children and their families. Well, what is the real impact of the pandemic...

A woman or a girl is killed by an intimate partner or a family member every 11 minutes, and the magnitude of gender related...

What do you value most in life? Is it family, health, wealth or friends? Well, for most of the people family comes first. A...

“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage” – this is an old nursery rhyme, which is quite popular...