Rearing a child calls for perseverance.

Gun collecting is a poor companion to child rearing.

Doctors are not as a rule trained in child rearing.

Moreover, child brides are more likely to drop out of school to concentrate on domestic chores and child rearing.

There was no evidence that the gender pay gap in Ireland was caused by discriminatory pay practices, a recent study having identified child rearing as the main reason women refrained from working.

It took generations to iron out all the problems of human pregnancy and child rearing outside of Terra.

Within those programmes, a number of projects have been implemented for the direct benefit of children, including programmes on extensive immunization, the prevention of malnutrition and safe child rearing.

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Harmful traditional practices affecting the health of women and the girl child

The Convention requires States parties to render appropriate assistance to parents, legal guardians and extended families in the performance of their child rearing responsibilities, inter alia by providing parenting education.

The chapter on marine culture assesses mariculture methods (marine net pen rearing, ocean ranching, extractive aquaculture and intensive shrimp farming) for their environmental consequences, and suggests best practices to guide policy making.

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Since women are taking on more responsibilities at work and in the community, it is said that the number of women with stress from both child rearing and work is increasing.

This approach to child rearing is not unrelated to happiness there is abundant evidence that those who are generous and kind are more content with their lives than those who are not.

Cultural rights include a group s ability to preserve its way of life, such as child rearing, continuation of language, and security of its economic base in the nation, which it is located.

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The recently adopted Children's Act 2005 defined who was considered a child and established measures against trafficking in children, child marriages, child betrothal and harmful traditional practices which affected children's welfare, dignity, growth and development.

Their traditional roles and responsibilities in child rearing, household management, family health welfare, food production, and support obligations to the immediate and extended families, hospitality services to visitors and involvement in community activities and development, continues today.

The Ministry of Gender Equality had been expanded and restructured, renamed the Ministry of Gender Equality and the Family, and given responsibility for family policies such as child rearing and family health in addition to gender issues.

Besides, obsolete customs and practices among some ethnic minorities, including child marriage, are impeding the advancement of women.

Child protection issues often challenge long held beliefs and practices and can provoke denial and resistance to change.

Federal and state legislation addressed issues of child protection and the prohibition of practices inimical to the welfare of the child such as trafficking, early marriages, street hawking, child labour and the withdrawal of girls from school.

The system incorporates the best practices of child welfare in the country and an assessment instrument accepted nationally and internationally.

(c) Building the capacities of parliamentarians to strengthen the protective environment for children, including eliminating harmful traditional practices, reducing the incidence of sexual exploitation and child pornography and combating child trafficking

The chief argument of those opposed to the bill is that marriage has always meant a lifelong union aimed at procreation and child rearing. This is its normative meaning the best that the human race has come up with to secure its survival.

In addition to an expanding welfare system, which since World War II had come to provide them with substantial assistance in the area of childbearing and child rearing, women had made notable legislative gains that brought them closer to full equality with men.

Livelihoods are supported by semi nomadic livestock rearing in the north and subsistence farming in the south.

Of 76 countries with a communication strategy to promote ECD, 65 made use of baseline surveys and other data on child care practices.

2. States Parties shall ensure the rights and responsibilities of persons with disabilities, with regard to guardianship, wardship, trusteeship, adoption of children or similar institutions, where these concepts exist in national legislation in all cases the best interests of the child shall be paramount. States Parties shall render appropriate assistance to persons with disabilities in the performance of their child rearing responsibilities.

Key result area 2 calls for capacity building for improved family care practices in support of newborn and young child survival, growth and development.

Some 94 countries have now developed a set of key family and community practices for child survival, growth and development, compared to 67 in 2002.

Targets include increasing the number of families using appropriate care practices and with access to the services and resources needed to ensure child survival, growth and development.

In December 2002, Children's Services announced a three part Child Care Initiative intended to strengthen standards and best practices for child care and to help children have a healthy start in life and provide them the support needed to reach their potential.

The emphasis is on prevention strategies as well as response and UNICEF is increasingly well placed to support national capacities for child protection, including laws, policies and practices.

Inadequate and unsafe water, poor sanitation, and unsafe hygiene practices are the main causes of diarrhoea, which results in at least 1.9 million under 5 child deaths annually.

One delegation called on UNICEF to play a lead role in issues related to slavery and child trafficking and suggested establishing a global partnership to end the practices.

Child labour, child kidnapping, child trafficking

The direct causes of maternal, neonatal and young child deaths are known and are largely preventable and treatable using proven and cost effective interventions and practices (see annex 1).

But there is a glaring weakness in the arguments of the bill s opponents while they hint darkly at the unintended consequences of legalizing same sex marriage, they cannot spell out exactly what these consequences would be. It is not obvious that normal marriage, procreation, or child rearing would be threatened by this add on.

Governments are working together, where appropriate, on research and knowledge related to early childhood development, sharing information on effective practices that improve child outcomes and disseminating the results of research.

UFER works with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences and the Special Rapporteur on traditional practices affecting the health of women and the girl child.

AIDS is coming back. Ebola seems to be rearing its head with much too much frequency, and old diseases like cholera are becoming resistant to antibiotics.

And it is here Europe s external relations, an issue absolutely vital to the future of all EU citizens that renationalization is rearing its ugly head again.

Rohini Pawar, who for the past seven years has used her video camera to expose practices ranging from child marriages to ostracisation of people living with HIV AIDS face, runs these clubs.