Newsletter # 192 EMPOWERING FAMILIES WORLDWIDE
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News from the last seven days
17 December 2018

Expert Group Meeting on Youth
 
Expert Group Meeting on Youth
 
The Doha International Family Institute, in collaboration with the Division for Inclusive Social Development of UN DESA and IFFD, have organized an Expert Group Meeting on ‘The Role of Families and Family Policy in Supporting Youth Transition’ (Qatar, 11-12 December 2018).
 
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Articles
 
How to save your family from holiday stress

Holidays and leisure
From festivity fatigue to setting unreasonable holiday expectations, there are a lot of relationship stressors lurking in the holy season.
[Jeremy Brown - Fatherly, 14 December 2018.]
Spain sees worst demographic balance since 1941

Communication
The main reason for the falling birth rate is that less Spaniards are getting married.
[Xinhua, 12 December 2018.]
US: Most parents – and many non-parents – don’t expect to have kids in the future

Communication
71% adults younger than 50 say it’s unlikely they will have more children in the future if they are already parent, and 37% of the rest don’t ever expect to become parents.
[Gretchen Livingston & Juliana Menasce Horowitz - Pew Research Center, 12 December 2018.]
On cultural and technological parenting

Parents
After her second suspension from the bus for bullying, Ohio student was made to walk to school by her father.
[Julian Vigo - Forbes, 11 December 2018.]
Australia: is marriage changing?

Marriage
Some see evidence of the institution of marriage declining in popularity, but maybe it’s becuase there’s less social pressure to marry for the sake of it.
[Caitlin Fitzsimmons - Sydney Morning Herald, 9 December 2018.]
Marriage can protect against tribulation

Marriage
Researchers have now noticed a certain degree of protection against depression.
[Paul Enck & Nicole Simon - Science Trends, 14 December 2018.]
Studies
 
Gender (in)equality over the life course

Equality
The collection of articles included in this Discussion Paper captures the state-of-the-art research in this field.
[Population Europe, December 2018.]
Videos
 
Wonderland

Work-family balance
BBC One’s Christmas short film, Wonderland — a story about rediscovering the joy of spending time together, as time stands still for a mother and son.
[BBC One]
 
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