Family & Society

The family is of vital importance for the social, economic, political, and cultural development of each nation since it has a social function that guarantees the stabilization of society. In other words, the family has a great influence on the sustainable development of nations.

The strengthening of the family allows the facilitation of progress in terms of human rights for all men and women, with special emphasis on the rights of children, adolescents, and the elderly.

It is a social fact that the family is the most important cultural institution of societies, that throughout history it was formed or built naturally, being today the elementary cell of all society, and that it plays a very important role for the integral development of each human person.

There is a reality that for some years has been growing and that it is necessary to pay due attention to it, and that is that they are factors that make families more vulnerable every day, which is of vital importance to observe and give the respective treatment. to those things that prevent the family from making its contribution more easily both to the full development of the person and to each society.

In recent years there has been an increase in de facto unions in many countries in which many of these couples manage to have children together, families of single mothers or fathers who are responsible for the care of children, widowed fathers or mothers, of families where their parents are separated, of children who do not live with their parents but are in the care of uncles or grandparents or other relatives, of de facto unions where the children of each of those who make up the couple were born in previous relationships and the decrease in families that are united in marriage and remain with their children in common.

These factors produce that the people who live in these families are often more likely to suffer or already suffer from some form of physical, psychological, or even sexual violence, of having great economic challenges that prevent them from achieving their goals or objectives, are more likely to fall into a situation of poverty, where there are people, especially children, and adolescents, with greater problems in their academic performance, men and women with less academic work efficiency and even prone to be less efficient in their relationships, families where adults The elderly do not have adequate care or attention and it is where each member has greater difficulties in obtaining subjective well-being, in addition to being more likely to suffer from addictions, physical and psychological health problems.

So that in all these situations many people who make up these families do not achieve full comprehensive development, or it is difficult for them to achieve it and it is where there are mostly attacks on their fundamental rights and freedoms, it is where the greatest problems are generated that affect a society. since the existence of certain problems translates into economic costs of great proportions, great difficulty in achieving the social, economic, political, and cultural development of a country, and clearly greater difficulties in achieving progress in the area of ​​human rights.

However, the opposite happens with families that are in a situation where they are married and the children live with their two biological parents since it has been shown that they have better levels of well-being in terms of education, physical security, parental relationships, and children, physical health, income and work, housing, fewer addiction problems, and subjective well-being, which allows the family to better play its leading role, these being the ones that best contribute to the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms of each person, and give a better and greater contribution, allowing society to advance more quickly in all senses, thus achieving that development.